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TIL that it currently takes more information to obtain a library card than to form a US company

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6EAB8 TIL that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas spoke a creole language associated with the descendants of slaves called Gullah as his first-language and that his relative silence on the Court is due in part to self-consciousness from being teased about the way he spoke as a child in rural Georgia.
aXDA TIL if Michael Phelps were a country he would be tied for 48th all time for Gold medals (13) and 64th all time for total medals (22). That includes summer and winter games.
yV0Qv TIL Male llamas and alpacas have what are called "fighting teeth", that they use to fight over mates
8lZP TIL In 1994 U.S. Senator Howell Heflin accidentally wiped his nose with his wife’s panties in front of reporters
PYZvZ TIL One of the first recorded applications for a closed circuit television system (CCTV) was back in 1942 in Nazi Germany, where it was used to monitor the launch of V2 rockets.