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TIL that the Vatican has a telescope in Arizona
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TIL that the average Rolls Royce buyer is 45 years old and earns $6 million per year
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TIL that the US Secret Service was originally formed to combat counterfeit currency. It wasn’t until 1901, after the assassination of President William McKinley, that their responsibilities broadened to presidential protection.
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TIL about the Holomodor, a man-made famine in 1930s Ukraine that killed up to 12 million ethnic Ukrainians. Some scholars believe that the famine was planned by Joseph Stalin to eliminate a Ukrainian independence movement.
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TIL: An analysis of data from every Supreme Court justice from 1789 to 2006 found that when the incumbent president is of a different party than the president who appointed the justice, the justice's death-in-office odds are about tripled.