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TIL the official name for Greece is the ‘Hellenic Republic’

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Z8MWB TIL that as comedian Sam Kinison lay dying from injuries sustained from a drunk driver he began saying, to no one in particular, "I don’t want to die. I don’t want to die." He paused as if listening, then said,"But why?" He paused once more, saying, "Okay, okay, okay," and peacefully passing away.
XdBj TIL Vermont was an independent country for 14 years. A popular poem from Vermont at the time read “Come York or come Hampshire, come traitors or knaves, If ye rule o'er our land ye shall rule o'er our graves; Our vow is recorded—our banner unfurled, In the name of Vermont we defy all the world!”
91J6 TIL According to an Old English time unit, one moment was 1.5 minutes.
VMJVk TIL 70% of lottery winners go bankrupt.
KYwJ6 Til a girl who survived Asiana plane crash was killed by a SFO firetruck that been dispatched to rescue survivors and extinguish flames from the burning Boeing 777.