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TIL 13 out of the top 15 SAT scoring states are run by Republicans

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LQoEQ TIL that in the year 2000, Norm MacDonald nearly won a million dollars for Paul Newman’s charity for children, but host Regis Philbin talked him out of answering the question so he only won $500,000
akA9 TIL in 2013, scientists sequenced genome of a horse that had been kept frozen for the last 700,000 years in permafrost in at Thistle Creek, Yukon, Canada
NDJ1 TIL: President George Washington was a lieutenant colonel in the British Army. He was unsuccessful in obtaining a royal commission but received a decree granting the British militia the same executive powers as commissioned officers. He is the only U.S President to have served the Crown.
Mo9W TIL: That a lake near Whitefish, Montana named “Nigger Lake” was deemed to be too offensive and was renamed…To “Lost Coon Lake.”
9wnpp TIL that in 1996, Mcdonald's tried to sue the owner of a family owned restaurant located in Fairbury, Illinois that had opened in 1956 called "McDonald's Family Restaurant" and lost, ironically the owner of "McDonald's Family Restaurant" is named Ronald McDonald.