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TIL that America: The Story of Us was filmed in South Africa and uses mostly South African actors.

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LQXEP TIL that the first known species of millipede that actually has at least 1,000 legs was only discovered in 2020. Prior to that, the record-holder was a species with only about 750 legs.
JYOxB TIL: "Semantic satiation" is a psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who then perceives the speech as repeated meaningless sounds
vN94 TIL a teenager secretly lived at AOL’s headquarters for two months. People just assumed he was working late.
6Eegl TIL that part of the reason Neil Armstrong was given the honor of first man on the Moon was that he was more humble than the egotistical Buzz Aldrin
6E1O8 TIL Andrew Carnegie by the time of his death in 1919 had already given away roughly 90% of his wealth. He is one of the richest Americans in history and the total money donated by him would equate to ~$65,000,000,000 in today's currency.