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TIL air conditioning is not popular in Europe. Only 5% of French homes are air-conditioned, 2% of German homes. Many travel sites include horror stories from Europeans describing how "unpleasant the United States is with its artificial cold, and reports of legions of Europeans who return ill."

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4kmK5 TIL of Silas Simmons, the oldest living baseball player of all time. Born in 1895, he played in the Negro Leagues from 1913-1929. After baseball, he was a porter and a department store manager. He died in 2006 at the age of 111, having outlived all 5 of his children and both of his wives
Eg6k0 TIL: The defunct bank Wachovia laundered $378.4 billion between 2004 - 2007 for the Mexican and Colombia Cartels. They had to forfeit $110mil and were only fined $50mil.
R59ZQ TIL that when U.S. Counties are ranked by per capita income, of the worst 5 percent of the counties, one - third are named for Confederate Leaders.
aGgL TIL Watermelon is a berry
E1Ard TIL that although Japan was allied with Nazi Germany and Italy during World War II, they secretly supported Poland, going as far as helping Poland evacuate a gold reserve from German-occupied territory and sheltering Polish Jews fleeing the occupation, even after Poland declared war on them in 1941.