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TIL the United States has no Official Language

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LkVjV TIL The briefcase in Pulp Fiction originally contained diamonds but that was deemed too predictable so it was decided that the contents were never to be seen. This way each audience member would fill in the blank with their own contents.
WkxL TIL that Canada was the third country to go to space
ANggx TIL that out of 556 people that have been in space, 339 of them were American. Americans represent 60.97% of all people who have ever been in space.
xmx1 TIL the first woman to hike the entire Appalachian Trail in one season was 67 years old at the time.
QJjOM TIL: The 4.2-kiloyear event was one of the most severe climatic events of the Holocene, which is said to have caused the decline of many civilizations from Egypt to the Indus valley.