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TIL the United States accepts more legal immigrants than every other nation on Earth combined

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VBxZ TIL Britain forgot about a 50,000 pound bomb that never went off - only to have it be hit by lightning 20 years later, unleashing its destruction on…a cow
1X5r TIL George Carlin went off on his Vegas crowd: “People who go to Las Vegas, you’ve got to question their fucking intellect to start with. Traveling…thousands of miles to essentially give your money to a large corporation is kind of fucking moronic… fucking people with very limited intellects.”
a8L9Z TIL: During the 2000 United States Senate Election in Missouri, incumbent Republican Senator John Ashcroft lost to a the Democratic Governor of Missouri Mel Carnahan, who died in a Plane Crash Three Weeks before Election Day
KYlEa TIL that the world's oldest known recipe is for beer! It dates back to ancient Mesopotamia, around 3,900 years ago, and includes instructions on how to brew a delicious barley-based beer.
94YD TIL Spain’s Paralympic basketball team were ordered to return their gold medals won in Sydney in 2000 after nearly all of their players were found to have no disability.