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TIL that Michigan produces both Sweet and Sour Crude Oil

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LkZBd TIL that Betsy Ross didn’t actually make the first American flag in 1776. It was a story made up by her grandson, 100 years later.
KOoAa TIL that in 2015, New York City went 12 days without a reported homicide. It was the longest streak since the NYPD began recording statistics with a computer program in 1994. The previous record was 10 days.
QZbe TIL that in 1848 light-skinned slave Ellen Craft, unable to travel with him as a woman, escaped with her dark-skinned husband by pretending to be both a white man and her husband’s owner. They traveled openly, first class, a thousand miles north from Georgia to freedom.
YpEnx TIL the constitution of Alabama is the longest and most amended constitution still operative anywhere in the world.
5E59 TIL president James Madison was only 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighed less than 100 pounds.