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TIL that love hotels, while common in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, are rare in the United States.

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reYy TIL in 1958, only 4 percent of Americans supported marriage between “whites and non-whites.”
N5lN TIL that after FIJI Water ran an ad joking that it “wasn’t bottled in Cleveland,” the Cleveland Water Department proved that Fiji Water contained the highest levels of arsenic and other contaminants when compared to Cleveland tap water and other bottled brands
oBaQL TIL the last person alive born in the 1800s, Emma Morano, lived to 117 and thrived on a diet of just two raw eggs a day
rNEjM TIL that in 1953 "Atomic Annie" a nuclear-capable artillery piece, shot the first and only nuclear artillery shell from a cannon.
M747m TIL the U.S. Navy had a warship called the USS Gyatt. Commissioned in 1945, the ship was named after Edward Earl Gyatt, a Marine Corps private who died in battle in 1942.