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TIL Morocco was the first country to recognize the United States as an independent sovereign nation

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JDMl TIL that The Biggest Loser, The Amazing Race and Survivor have created more successful couples than The Bachelor/Bachelorette
1g0V TIL in the 19th century the word gay referred to a woman who was a prostitute and a gay man was someone who slept with a lot of women.
lgxV TIL in 1981, a pediatrician saved the life of a 3.2-pound premature baby boy by working around the clock to beat the odds & stabilize him. In 2011, the pediatrician was pinned inside a burning vehicle after a car collision, but was saved by the premature baby, who had grown up to become a paramedic.
N7x4J TIL that pre-installed software took up 45% of the Samsung Galaxy S4's 16-gigabyte storage.
P5PG TIL Abraham Lincoln’s son, Robert, was once saved from being hit by a train when a man grabbed him off the tracks. The man was Edwin Booth, brother of John Wilkes Booth.