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TIL that the state of Texas has the power to split itself into five new states, and has been able to do so for decades.

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Me7Om TIL the Oxford English Dictionary contains over 170,000 words in current use, whereas a vocabulary of just 3000 words provides coverage for around 95% of common texts. If you do the math, that's 1.75% of the total number of words in use.
16Rjd TIL that London's M25 motorway loop is broken at the River Thames, where it becomes the less restricted A282 in order to allow non-motorway traffic to use the Dartford Crossing
0dapj TIL US butter is shaped differently depending on where in the US it's produced. Eastern US butter is longer and skinnier while west coast butter is short and stubby.
meMx TIL the Jimmy Carter Administration installed Solar Panels on the White House to heat water, then the Ronald Reagan Administration took them down and cut tax credits to renewable energy research.
1a6P8 TIL Homer Simpson's idea to fill a mine with other cities' garbage dissuaded a small Canadian town with the exact same idea.