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TIL that San Bernardino County, the biggest county in the contiguous United States, is bigger than the Netherlands, while Yukon–Koyukuk Census Area in Alaska is bigger than Germany or Japan

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LQAQV Today I learned that Yondu Udonta might speak Silbo Gomero to his killing arrows
xjwg TIL that the tumbling tumbleweed (Kali tragus), a long standing symbol of the lonely American West, is actually a foreign introduced species from Asia commonly called ‘Russian thistle’.
XGVR TIL that one of the first franchise restaurants is the Chicken in the Rough restaurant chain which started in the 1930s. There are still four left
gMR87 TIL The Salvation Army is run by evangelicals
XjoE TIL the German government will lose copyright of Hitler’s infamous book “Mein Kampf” in 2016, which means they can no longer uphold their 70-year-old ban on it. Germany is already threatening to ban any educational rerelease of the book out of fear it will “advance” the Nazi ideology again.