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TIL that "125 meters west of the Pizza Hut" can literally count as an address in Costa Rica.

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nAZb TIL in galactic years, the Sun is about 20 years old and will die at the age of 54.
DQO5p TIL of the 1986 Illinois gubernatorial election, where Lyndon LaRouche's cultists hijacked the Democratic lieutenant governor primary to nominate one of their own, causing the actual Democrats to split off and form their own 3rd party for the year
YeRZ TIL Americans were more likely to help strangers than any other nationality according to the World Giving Index
eVgb TIL Joseph ‘LA’ Hayward, The second Grand Wizard of the KKK, was a Homosexual and he and his partner were lynched after he admitted it.
erxn TIL drug overdoses from opiods increased 14% in 2014, killing 40,000 people. This is an increase of 137% since 2000. More people die from drug overdoses, says the CDC, than in road accidents: just under 33,000 people died in traffic accidents last year in 2014.