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TIL: Washington State actually has the second largest population in the Western United States

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b6lG7 TIL that Iceland was once covered in trees until the Vikings came and cut them down to make room for sheep
XElBP TIL The idea of using red poppies to commemorate fallen soldiers first appeared in the poem “In Flanders Field”, written in 1915 by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae (Memorial Day 2021)
M7yGB TIL the first Vogue cover to be photographed by a black person was in 2018.
N7QPM TIL Elton John is Eminem’s A.A. sponsor.
Xw8 TIL that cats are directly responsible, over the years, for the extinction of no fewer than 33 bird species worldwide. Meow