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TIL 1 out of every 8 Americans is Californian.

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nW607 TIL The state bird of Utah is the seagull or more specifically, the California Gull
g7QW TIL: Katrin Himmler, grandniece of SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler, has NOT refused to have children to end her great-uncle’s bloodline. She believes the idea of good or evil being passed through bloodlines is itself a reflection of Nazi ideology.
BYed TIL in 1964, the US government hired two average physics PhDs to design an atom bomb based solely on publicly available information to see how easy it actually is.
WyXN TIL there is a bright pink millipede that is able to ‘shoot’ cyanide.
wLG57 TIL That Wild Bil Hickok and his family were very anti-slavery. Hickok’s father moved his family from Vermont to Maine to Homer (now Troy Grove), Illinois. There the family’s small farm served as a stop on the Underground Railroad.