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TIL Prisoners are counted by the census as residents of towns in which they are jailed. Dramatically distorting those communities representation at local and state levels.

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v19r4 TIL, U.S Navy pilot David Mccampbell set a United States single mission aerial combat record of shooting down nine enemy planes in one mission during the Battle of the Leyte Gulf on October 24, 1944, while flying the F6F Hellcat. He received the Medal of Honor for his actions.
w5x6 TIL six multi-billion dollar companies control every T.V. station we watch
nWaeY TIL about "The Bell of Good Luck", the heaviest functioning bell in the world at 116 metric tons (255,200 lbs). It's 8.1 metres high and 5.1 metres in diameter
0Lvj TIL Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan is responsible for singing the falsetto line “Not by the hair on my chinny-chin-chin” on the Green Jelly song ‘Three Little Pigs’.
OooW7 TIL that Beatrix Potter, the author of “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” was also one of the leading mycologists of her time.