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TIL from 1923 to 1969, "American" was the sole official language of Illinois.

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Qx8a TIL that 43% of sexual acts are completed within two minutes.
awZkM TIL of Nicholas Vedeer who was the last surviving revolutionary war soldier in New York State when he died in 1862. He was photographed in his uniform sometime before his death giving an extraordinary picture of an actual American Patriot.
p84Wp TIL The celebrity holdout of the Mt. St Helens eruption, Harry Truman, refused to believe the volcano would be a threat to him. His family was futile in an attempt to bribe him away with whisky. On 05/18/80 Harry was buried under 150 ft of volcanic ash with his 16 cats.
WArB TIL; The area code for the International Space Station phone is a Houston area code, 281.
dAnr TIL the first time Trey Parker used auto-tune, he had to deliberately sing off-key. “You had to be a bad singer in order for that thing to actually sound the way it does.”