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TIL there is only 1 area code in Idaho

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R55wj TIL that more than half of the population of our planet has never seen snow and can judge it, only from photos and eyewitness accounts .
xVrE1 TIL that the flag of West Virginia is the only US State flag with crossed rifles, meant to illustrate the importance of the state's fight for liberty during the Civil War.
8KXP TIL “Porn Judge” is an official Chinese government job title. Judges are paid $32,000 per year to view porn all day and have the sacred task of “returning the Internet to a clean and safe state”. One judge is named “Wang Dong”.
6EyWl Til 60% of all vocabulary in the modern Japanese dictionary are chinese loanwords
ANAWB TIL scientists discovered lipopeptides that kill microbes so efficiently they named them after Keanu Reeves. Just as Keanu was extremely deadly he was in his films, ‘keanumycins’ are devastating to human-pathogenic fungi and plant fungal diseases.