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TIL 88% of households in America have air conditioning while only 20% do in Europe

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X0jAr TIL The Royal Canadian Mint’s International Minting division produces currency for about 80 countries.
4kovR TIL that Michael Jackson's chimpanzee 'Bubbles' is still alive at 40 years old and living in Florida
ej8g TIL that there is an airtight room in a University in Georgia (US), sealed in 1940, to be opened in the year 8113. The “Crypt of Civilization” contains a wealth of artifacts from literary works to everyday items.
bPKN TIL Margaret Garner, a slave that escaped to Cincinatti, killed her own daughter with a butcher knife, wounded her other children, and tried to commit suicide rather when government officials tried to arrest her to return them to slavery
BrwLD TIL of a 2013 study on plea bargaining, in which innocent university students were accused of cheating. Over half agreed to admit guilt in exchange for reduced punishments.