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TIL high school sports is something that is unique in the US. In most countries in the world, schools don't have sports teams.

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EbRV TIL Benjamin Franklin helped to create Impeachment Clause of US Constitution as he recognized that if a president were to “render himself obnoxious”, the logical yet less ideal alternative to an impeachment would be an assassination
Oob6R TIL: As of January 2019, a third of the households in Alabama, USA still had no home internet access.
gv4y TIL that the #1 high school in the US, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, in which 2/3 of the student body is Asian but only via http://bit.ly/133mWgV
KO9W6 TIL That Salvadore Dali was known to avoid paying tabs at restaurants by drawing on the checks he wrote. His theory was the restaurant would never want to cash such a valuable piece of art
yL0V TIL Ian McDiarmid was only 38 years old when he played the Emperor in Return of the Jedi