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TIL there is a city in Kansas called Gas. Their official motto is “Don’t Pass Gas, Stop and Enjoy It.”

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W7v0L TIL that the longest word in the English dictionary is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, and it is a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine ash and sand dust.
X4VP TIL for every nine people executed in the U.S., one person on death row has been exonerated.
7mVx TIL in Tudor England, the teeth of the well-to-do frequently went black from sugar. This started a short-lived fashion trend of ladies blackening their teeth to give the impression they were rich enough to buy luxury goods
VbxB TIL The Last Witch Hunter was based off Vin Diesel’s DND character, Kaulder
aQx9 TIL that in 1996, a three year old boy fell into the gorilla exhibit at the Brookfield Zoo. The child was rescued by a mother gorilla who cradled him until the zookeepers arrived.