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TIL In the USA, Representatives do not have to live in their districts, only their states.

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R5rp1 TIL almost 70% of Brazilians working force, earn less than US$ 555,00 a month for 44 hours weekly.
91BM TIL the Troll A Platform, a natural gas platform in the middle of the Troll Gas Field off the coast of Norway, is the tallest and heaviest structure ever moved to another position, relative to the surface of the Earth, and is among the largest and most complex engineering projects in history.
mxlnx TIL that while the moon’s diameter is 400 times less than that of the sun, it’s also about 400 times closer to earth. That’s why solar eclipses happen to work out so well on earth.
NX85E TIL: President Warren G. Harding lost a set of White House china and a game of cards.
4b8X TIL that due to the lax laws that pertained to divorce in Reno, Nevada in the early 1900’s, “divorce ranches” were created where women, who were denied divorces in their own home states, could stay at, establish residency, and gain a divorce in Reno within the span of six weeks.