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TIL Winston Churchill once said “You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing—after they have tried everything else.”

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oBeMK TIL the author of Peter Pan gifted his rights to the story to a children’s hospital in 1929, which has benefited to this day.
XWQk TIL in an 8-hour workday, the average worker is productive for 2 hours and 53 minutes.
vKGK TIL that ketchup’s popularity and universality is due in part to the fact that it embodies all five distinct tastes: salty, sweet, bitter, sour, and umami
n1D7 TIL California has a recycle rate of nearly 100% on aluminum cans, due to fraudulent recycling rings
x8Mg TIL distance-running has skyrocketed in popularity 3 times in modern history, each time in the midst of a major crisis: during the Great Depression, in the 1970s during a recession, race riots, assassinations, and Vietnam, and 1 year after 9/11 it became the fastest-growing outdoor sport in the US.