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TIL The full name for the State of Rhode Island

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l7e01 TIL Samsung started out dealing in dried-fish, groceries, and noodles
9RLQ TIL that a 62-foot statue of Jesus built by a megachurch in Ohio was destroyed when it was struck by lightning and caught on fire.
pYn8O TIL of John Galvan, a wrongfully convicted man was released after 35yrs thanks to Mythbusters. He was forced to sign a confession to lighting a Molotov with a cigarette, killing two men. One day, in his cell, watching a rerun of Mythbusters, MB proved this to be impossible, and so he was freed.
gMJVA TIL that after Reagan saw the nuclear war film THE DAY AFTER (1983) he wrote in his diary, "It’s very effective & left me greatly depressed. [We have] to do all we can to have a deterrent & to see there is never a nuclear war." He later said it directly inspired the INF Treaty with the USSR.
EQW0 TIL the Nazis kidnapped hundreds of thousands of Polish children they deemed to be racially superior, and forcibly Germanized them. Only 10-15% were ever returned.