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TIL "Thank God for Mississippi" is a saying used in the South because of Mississippi's commonly/stereotypically low rankings in quality of life among US states, thus sparing residents of other states the shame of being ranked last

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kJZG7 TIL: clouds are 99.9999% air and only 0.0001% water by volume, even though they can weigh thousands of tons.
QN71M TIL Malagasy, the national and co-official language of Madagascar, belongs to the Austronesian language family, primarily spoken in Southeast Asia, and does not originate from Africa. The ancestors of the Malagasy people migrated to Madagascar around 1,500 years ago.
ek16 TIL the X’s that you often see on the sides old moonshine jugs in cartoons and popular media actually signified how many times that particular batch had gone through the still, being that the basic pot-stills of yesteryear required you to distill the mash several times before you got pure alcohol.
ZplVp TIL Partway through the hour-long trial of former Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena, their lawyers abandoned their defense and sided with the prosecutors. Afterwards, their execution by firing squad happened so quickly that the TV crew was unable to film the execution in full.
9VJ7 TIL That 18 material witnesses died within 3 years after JFK’s death - six by gunfire, three in motor accidents, two by suicide, one from a cut throat, one from a karate chop to the neck, three from heart attacks, and two from natural causes.