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TIL that only 1/3 of the people in America really supported the American Revolution in 1776

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PBdE TIL that the American dream costs $130k a year if you live in an affordable area with one car payment.
kJePg TIL Martin Landau had a brief career as a comic strip artist before going into acting.
lo6y7 TIL that Congressman Leo Ryan, who was murdered while investigating Jonestown in 1978, had a record of directly looking into his constituents' concerns. As an assemblyman, he investigated the conditions of California prisons in 1970 by using a pseudonym to enter Folsom Prison as an inmate.
Bx4d TIL of Dave Shaw. A deep-water diver who,while trying to break the world record for diving,found the body of another diver who had been missing for 10 years.
d8x0K TIL - In Germany there exists the only tree in the world with its own mailing address. The "matchmaking" tree receives about 1,000 letters per year from singles looking for love. Anyone can take letters from the tree and respond. It is estimated the tree is responsible for over 100 marriages.