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TIL that the United States host by far more immigrants than any other country in the world at 19.8% of total. The next country is Russia, at 4.8%

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mwEP TIL Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry served in WWII with a pilot named Kim Noonien Singh and lost contact with him following the war’s end. Roddenberry named the villain Khan Noonien Singh after his comrade in hopes that Singh would notice and contact him.
e0ork TIL that dogs can be left or right handed and the preferences are more evenly distributed than in humans.
ox5A TIL Telling other people your goals makes you less likely to achieve them. If you want to reach them, science says stop talking
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