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TIL the tallest building in Vermont is 11 stories tall
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TIL there's only 2 individuals left of the world's largest freshwater turtle - the Yangtze giant softshell
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TIL The United States is the only country to have hosted consecutive FIFA World Cups in either the men's or women's formats. The US hosted the women's tournament in 1999 and served as emergency hosts in 2003 due to a SARS outbreak in China.
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TIL that the "Candy bar protest", also known as "the 5 cent chocolate war", "the 5 cent war", and "the chocolate candy bar strike", was a short-lived 1947 protest by Canadian children over the increase in price of chocolate bars from five to eight cents.
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TIL that Ulysses Grant was extremely tone-deaf. “I know only two tunes. One of them is ‘Yankee Doodle’ and the other isn’t.”
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TIL That until the year 1991 it was illegal for bars to serve homosexuals. It was being actively enforced until a 1991 US District Court case struck it down.