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TIL that only 24% of Arab Americans are Muslim.

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9gjQ TIL that our solar system is ‘unusual’ in that it only has one star, more than half of the stars in the sky are binary or triple, Jupiter could have been our second star
LQ5Wp TIL of a woman who birthed 69 children. She had 27 pregnancies, resulting in about 20 years of pregnancy.
v5kB TIL that in 1834 Mormon leader Joseph Smith desecrated an Indian grave mound and declared the bones were from Zelph a White Indian who worked for the great Prophet Onandagus. Smith and his buddies divided up the bones and they are now lost.
VBVRD TIL that half of all plastics ever made were made in the last 15 years
d8wPK TIL of John Burns, a resident of Gettysburg PA who at 70 years old in 1863 insisted on joining the Union line with his outdated flintlock rifle, shot a Confederate officer from his horse, fought w the Iron Brigade, was wounded several times, duped Confederate doctors into mending him, and snuck home