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TIL One California couple uses over 100 billion gallons of water each year.

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R75n6 TIL that 71% of counties in the Great Plains have recorded population declines since 1980, the highest rate of any region in the United States.
ADxOx TIL Scotland's national animal is the unicorn
45JR TIL radiocarbon dating will no longer work independently on fossils and artifacts post-WW2 due to residual radiation resulting nuclear arms testing. Future archeologists will not be able to date our remains using only carbon dating.
M9o0 TIL in 2015, a top Russian Military Strategist recommended dropping a Megaton-Class Nuclear Bomb on Yellowstone National Park, catalyzing a Supervolcano Eruption that could kill more than 50% of the U.S. population in the first 24 hours. He recommends such action if “tensions should ever boil over”.
0wPwy Today I learned that Oklahoma means "red person". It's a combination of two Choctaw words: "okla" meaning person, and "humma" meaning red.