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TIL there’s a town in South Carolina called North. So it’s called North, South Carolina.

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N76gN TIL that Rod Serling wrote one of "The Twilight Zone" episodes as his reaction to JFK assassination. The episode ends with the news broadcast saying that the sky has turned dark over the street in Dallas; as well as North Vietnam, part of the Berlin Wall and "other places of hate around the world".
x6Bwk TIL that BBC News is available in Pidgin English
nWxLW TIL The organizers of the Japan Olympics in 2021 distributed 160,000 condoms to the athletes
9G6M TIL that Inuits really have a term that means Eskimo brother: “aipak”, or “other me”, describing a positive relationship with someone who has slept with his wife.
e0YXE TIL If you totally sleep-deprive a white-crowned sparrow in the laboratory during the migratory period of the year, it suffers virtually no ill effects whatsoever. The US government continues to have a vested interest in this sparrow: their hope for developing a 24-hour soldier.