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TIL Santa Anna introduced chewing gum to the US during his exile from Mexico

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x6v5g TIL that the borders of 10 different municipalities converge at the summit of Mount Etna in Sicily
7rP1x TIL After Oprah's famous "You get a car" episode, where she gave away 276 cars at a total cost of $7.6 million, many of the recipients sent in complaints to the show as they had all been charged a $6-7k "gift tax".
keK4 TIL that since we are three-dimensional beings and can only fathom objects of dimensions equal or lower to our own, it’s possible there are fourth or fifth-dimensional beings that can see us, but we can’t see them.
Zp7wG TIL about Jambo, a gorilla that protected a child who fell into his enclosure in 1986
oRMwW TIL in 1977, musician Jimmy Buffett was driving to Key West on the Seven Mile Bridge when the bridge got stuck in the open position causing a 3-hour delay to fix it. To kill time, he wrote the song "Margaritaville" while sitting on the hood of his car.