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TIL the record high (121F) and low (-60F) temperatures in North Dakota happened in the same year, just 5 months apart.

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rRnr4 TIL the last US Civil War widow died in 2008.
epwVb TIL that there's a cosmological model that says our observable universe is inside a black hole.
m1moR TIL emergency oxygen masks on airplanes only last for ~10-14min.
g8aX TIL In 1797, both houses of congress unanimously passed the sentiment that “the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion” and that technically still carries the force of federal law to this day
d8Zdr TIL of the SS Pacific, a trans-Atlantic steamer that disappeared on a routine voyage between Liverpool and New York in 1856. In 1861, a message in a bottle released by a doomed passenger describing the ship sinking due to icebergs washed ashore in the Hebrides- solving the mystery.