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TIL that fireflies are facing extinction in the United States.

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N7b96 TIL: the Pre-Code Era of Hollywood when movies were not systematically censored by an oversight group. Along with featuring stronger female characters, these films examined female subject matters that would not be revisited until decades later in US films.
16VaO TIL that “OK” is said to be the most widely spoken word in the world, having been adopted as a loanword in Spanish, Dutch, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Russian, Filipino, Vietnamese, Indonesian, and others. However, the etymology of the word is uncertain.
gM8yX TIL former Russian President Boris Yeltsin wrote in his autobiography that his views on communism were shattered after seeing an American supermarket for the first time in 1990.
wZbW TIL Charles Schwab met a bunch of black American soldiers on a boat’s commissary in 1919, and as an experiment offered to lend them each a dollar. He gave them all his address, if they wanted to pay him back. 138 of 154 men did, almost 90%.
Mekym TIL that George Meegan walked from the southern tip of South America to the northernmost part of Alaska, an unbroken walk of 19,019 miles.