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TIL that in 2017, a United Nations official investigating poverty in the United States, stated that Alabama had the worst poverty in the entire developed world.

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J1Lwm TIL whale oil was used in transmissions until its ban in 1972, when less than 1 million transmissions failed each year; without whale oil, yearly transmission failures became more than 8 million by 1975. This led to thousands of transmission shops opening across the USA in the late 1970s and ’80s
d8VpQ TIL The Incredibles takes place in the 1960's
GAVaN TIL that Brockton Massachusetts is called The City Of Champions, because both undefeated heavyweight Rocky Marciano and Marvin Hagler are Brockton natives.
ANGb7 TIL that some early Chinese munitions consisted of black powder in a bamboo tube along with a live rat. When fired toward the enemy, the flaming rats created great psychological ramifications—scaring enemy soldiers away and causing cavalry units to go wild
Oj51 TIL that an arm of the Republican Party got “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repealed.