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4XYBo TIL Jewish Americans have made a tradition of eating Chinese food during the holiday season since the early 1900s
b9nOp TIL Thomas Jefferson's epitaph, which he wrote himself, states "Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia." It makes no mention of his Presidency.
vPldB TIL the first scientist to show that more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would increase global temperatures was Eunice Foote
GJZN TIL that 14 of the poorest African countries are forced by France, through a colonial pact, to put 85% of their foreign reserve into France central bank.They are effectively putting in 500 Billion dollars every year to the French treasury.
16Jw8 TIL the historical meridian marker in Greenwich is actually off by about 100 metres because the unevenness in the mass of the Earth bends the light of the stars that were used to calculate it