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TIL because North Dakota is often the last stop for people visiting all 50 US states, they have a "Best for Last" Club - if you advise it's the last stop on your journey, you get a commemorative t-shirt and certificate (they clap for you too!) for saving the "Best for Last"

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9wlMB TIL that, even though they are 2 totally independent countries, Portugal is in charge of the defense of São Tomé and Príncipe, being especially useful against pirates.
Z8Blp TIL that when Hattie McDaniel became the first black person to win an Academy Award (for her performance in "Gone with the Wind") in 1940, she was seated at a segregated table at the side of the room
YywB TIL Bilbo Baggins’ home, “Bag End”, is a literal translation of “Cul-de-Sac”
4Yjw TIL “The Book of Abraham”, a book supposedly translated by Joseph Smith for The Book of Mormon, was debunked by Mormon and non-Mormon Egyptologists as ancient funerary texts
o5RE TIL after the 2007 movie “The Man From Earth” was illegally shared via BitTorrent, the producer publicly thanked the file sharers because it “lifted the profile of the film far beyond the financier’s expectations.”