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TIL nearly 2/3 of Americans live in a “constitution-free zone”

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b67Y0 TIL only 8 players have been to 5 consecutive World Cups. Half of them are Mexican.
NvwQ TIL that Weird Al’s parents both died on the same day of carbon monoxide poisoning. Only hours later, he performed a concert and started by saying “since my music had helped many of my fans through tough times, maybe it would work for me as well.”
RmJ6 TIL Japanese Death Row Inmates Are Not Told Their Date of Execution. They Wake Each Day Wondering if Today May Be Their Last.
VKA8 [TIL] Today I learned that, after retiring from football and wrestling, Bronko Nagurski opened a gas station and retained customers by screwing on their gas caps so tight only he could unscrew them
b5LZ TIL, The Strid is a narrow stream in Yorkshire with a deep chasm and undercurrents so strong that not a single person who has fallen into the Strid has ever come out of it alive