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TIL that the US military recruits more people per capita from the Federated States of Micronesia than from any US state.

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gBOX TIL That Mr Burns telephone greeting in The Simpsons, ‘Ah-Hoy!’ was actually how Alexander Graham Bell thought people should answer the telephone when he invented it.
yVYDp TIL that Redbad, the last pagan King of Frisia (modern-day northern Netherlands), refused to convert to Christianity, choosing to spend eternity in Hell with his ancestors rather than in Heaven with beggars.
Kj14 TIL after getting into a taxi, Prohibition agent Izzy Einstein asked the driver where he could find some alcohol, to which the driver offered him a bottle of whiskey, resulting in an arrest after 35 seconds.
e0jJ TIL that when Gerber began to sell their baby food in Africa, they had to remove the image of a baby from the labels, since many horrified, illiterate Africans used these images to find what the bottles contained.
WOr4 TIL Pluto hasn’t completed a single orbit since it’s discovery in 1930. It will complete the orbit March 23, 2178.