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TIL firing someone for their sexual orientation is still legal in 12 states in the US

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EgPrP TIL the odds of you being born are at least 1 in 400 trillion
ZwkG TIL Nearly 80% of people who die from drowning in the USA are male.
wLGaY TIL that, for a brief time, there existed a breakaway "Samurai Republic" on the island of Hokkaido that held the first-ever "democratic" elections in Japan
9Aa6 TIL Amtrak will attach privately-owned rail cars to their trains so you can travel between points in North America.
7rnob TIL that Isaac Newton at height of his career gave up science to run the mint in London, where he spent the rest of his life chasing counterfeiters and dabbling in alchemy and mysticism. He died in 1727 at age 84, apparently a virgin.