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TIL Watermelon is a berry

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4bp6 TIL that four-year-old children on welfare in the United States have been exposed to an average of 30 million fewer words than children of higher income families.
OoX1X TIL in 2013 a New Jersey man used an illegal GPS jammer on his pick-up, blocking his location from his employer. Unfortunately, it also disrupted a ground based aircraft position system at Newark Int., as he often drove near the airport. He was fined by the FCC almost $32,000 and fired from his job.
ne50Y Today I learned that it is illegal to export more than $25 in pennies or nickels. Previously it was $5.
4XblN TIL of Benjamin "Pap" Singleton, also known as Black Moses, who lead thousands of freed slaves from the South to colony towns in Kansas. These black migrants fleeing the South were known as Exodusters, named for the book Exodus in the Bible.
V6Xm TIL George Washington’s Farewell address warned America about political parties and foreign influences tearing America apart.