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TIL that the US uses less water now than it did in 1970

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rkOw TIL that in last 85 years in the US, unemployment has gone up during all Republican presidential terms except Reagan and gone down during all democrat presidential terms except Carter (see chart)
X0D1j TIL There is another planet that orbits the sun on the outer-reaches of our solar system, sedna
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