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TIL that Colorado has the fewest required school days in the United States (160), and that 8 states don't have any minimum school day requirement: Arkansas, Idaho, Nebraska, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.

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b9xkN TIL in 1965 Edward Turner from British motorcycle company BSA said that small Japanese bikes were good for BSA, as they would attract potential riders of bigger bikes. However, he did not predict that the Japanese would then export attractive larger motorcycles, thus threatening companies like BSA.
W7xEo TIL of the anti-slavery book "The Impending Crisis of the South" published before the civil war which sought to convince southerners to abandon slavery by appealing to their self-interest using economic arguments rather than any appeal to morality. Three men were hanged in Arkansas for owning a copy
P1OEg TIL in 2022 China experienced its first drop in population since 1961. It had a record low birth rate of 6.77 births per 1,000 while also recording its highest death rate since 1976: 7.37 deaths per 1,000 people.
XaJP TIL during the sentencing of his war crimes trial, Hermann Göring (one of Hitler’s top officers) asked to be shot as a soldier and not hung as a common man. The court refused and instead he committed suicide with a potassium cyanide capsule smuggled into a fountain pen.
NXwOM TIL that January 1st came to be celebrated as the new year in 153 BCE, when it became the inauguration date of new Roman consuls. The Julian and Gregorian calendars carried this over from the earlier Roman consular dating system.