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TIL: Author Colin Woodward wrote that America is not one country, but 11 different countries based on sociological presence. Miami isn’t even part of the US.

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BrkWb TIL the man who assassinated Robert Kennedy is alive and serving a lifetime prison sentence. He has been denied parole 15 times and continues to claim he has no memory of the murder. He was stabbed multiple times by another inmate in 2019 and survived. He never became an American citizen.
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R7R7w TIL Baby Carrots were invented to prevent waste. In 1986, a Packing Plant owner in California came up with the baby carrot as a way of not wasting misshapen carrots. They became an instant hit.
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OGBXL TIL The average height of Chinese men rose nearly 9 cm from 1984 to 2019