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TIL there's only two swets of escalators in the state of Wyoming in the US (pop ~587,618; land area 253,335 km2 / 97,813 sq mi)

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yVVNM TIL that while reading your eyes don’t move continuously along a line of text but make short, rapid movements (saccades) intermingled with short stops
GYmyN TIL that descendants of the artist Diego Velazquez (1599-1660) include the current monarchs of Belgium, Sweden and the Netherlands.
YpVaZ TIL that many Icelanders refer to WW2 as "the blessed war" because the country has the war to thank for their independence.
VKRm TIL that in the 60’s Ford was in talks to buy Ferrari but when Ferrari backed out at the last minute it enraged Ford so they built the GT40 to beat Ferrari at Le Mans. It went on to win 4 consecutive times.
yVQVw TIL one Brazil nut contains twice the recommended daily amount of selenium our body requires. One serving of nuts contains about 1000% of your daily allowance.