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TIL Despite the US owning the most gun per capita, team USA has never won an Olympic medal in the one winter event (biathlon) that involves guns.

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8ebbL TIL that the oldest operating bookstore in the world is in the Chiado neighborhood of Lisbon, Portugal. It was founded almost three hundred years ago, in 1732.
9w0P7 TIL of Shinkolobwe, a mine located in the Haut-Katanga of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It produced the most economical Uranium that was used for the Manhattan Project and subsequent nuclear weapons produced by the United States in the 1940s and 50s.
RQj6 TIL of Methuselah, one of the oldest trees in the world, located in California. It’s location is kept secret to protect it.
JYl1v TIL French author Antoine Saint-Exupery actually wrote The Little Prince in Long Island, NY after fleeing France during the German Occupation in 1940. There was also a brief reference to New York in the original transcript that ended up getting cut.
x44w TIL of the legend of Sir Francis Drake’s drum. On his deathbed he requested that the drum be returned to England, and if ever they came under attack, one was to beat the drum and he would return to protect the country.