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TIL that the US is the world biggest porn producer.

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D1JDj TIL why people don't scream and flail around when they close to drowning; their bodies do not have the air needed to perform actions such as waving around or screaming for help to seek attention, so the body attempts to prolong your survival in a few ways completely subconsciously.
PYjeL TIL that back in 2010, a man named Jon McLoone ran 15 million computer simulation of the game Hangman and found out that the most difficult word for that program to guess is "Jazz".
Q1kX TIL: the 19th amendment was ratified due to one vote, cast by Harry Burn. He was originally against women’s sufferage, until he received a letter from his mother.
5QWB TIL that it is not only possible to be elected Governor of Louisiana with only 33% of the vote, it actually happened as recently as 1987.
a8YKA TIL that in the 1860s when the US was in Civil War, the French Emperir Napoleon III tried to place an Emperor in Mexico. After th US Civil War ended, members of the conservative Confederacy went into Mexico to support the Emperor while the rest of the US supplied arms to the liberal resistance.