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TIL West Virginia has a landlocked lighthouse

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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.
Oy0e TIL Dutch women rank consistently low, compared to those in other Western countries, in terms of representation in top positions in business and government—and rank consistently near the top in terms of happiness and well-being.
m1D5E TIL that ants are much more closely related to bees than wasps are
e0nZk TIL that Phillip J. Fry wasn't named in honor of Phil Hartman after all like Billy West once said, but after Matt Groening's father, Homer Phillip Groening. One in his children is also called Phillip.
5KRn TIL that in WWI, the Germans converted liner SMS Cap Trafalgar into an armed merchant cruiser, which they then disguised as the British liner HMS Carmania. Off the coast of Brazil, Trafalgar was attacked and sunk by a British ship. That ship was also an armed merchant cruiser; the real HMS Carmania.