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TIL that Americans still have a tax on their phone bill to pay for the 1898 Spanish-American war.

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7bGX TIL that there’s an ordinary-looking stream in Yorkshire that’s actually a full size river compressed into a narrow channel, and it’s thought that no-one who’s fallen in has ever survived.
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