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TIL California (population 37,000,000) has only 58 more bars than Wisconsin (population 5,600,000)

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0d8kN TIL: in 1933 Western Australia voted to leave the Australian federation. On the same day as the referendum they voted in a pro stay state government and secession never happened.
D1PXe TIL King Louis XV was stabbed with a knife in an assassination attempt, and fearing he's dying requested to confess and asked forgiveness from his wife for having a number of affairs. He didn't die. The knife only penetrated less than an inch of skin
RW1w TIL an almost-invisible square metre sheet of graphene could be made into a hammock to hold the weight of a 4kg cat, despite weighing less than one of the cat’s whiskers
ZjLG TIL that Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban said that the manager of officials of the NBA “wouldn’t be able to manage a Dairy Queen.” Dairy Queen was offended by this and invited him to manage a Dairy Queen for a day. Cuban accepted the company’s invitation and worked for a day at a Dairy Queen
VBBKm TIL sorcery and wizardry are viewed by some anthropologists as crucial parts of modernity - they fully reject claims that magic is antiquated