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TIL the United States has no Official Language

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kJoR5 TIL One out of every 21 New Yorkers is a millionaire
6Ee9Q TIL that two Scottish clans fought a trial by combat to determine who would get the better position in an upcoming battle against a third clan. Only 12 of the 60 combatants survived.
Ood6R TIL the pyramids weren't built by slaves but paid workers, who often left graffiti on unexposed areas of the pyramids identifying their crews, like "The Drunkards of Menkaure"
4X865 TIL Finland has a unit of measurement, “poronkusema,” that means “the distance a reindeer could travel without stopping to urinate.”
gK5W TIL in 1986 NASA asked Big Bird to enter into a space mission to encourage kids to get interested in space. The big bird suit was too big for the spacecraft meaning he could not fly, the spacecraft that he was meant to be on exploded as it was taking off.