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TIL that Marianas Trench is a United States National Monument

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loygG TIL in 1878, with $11 of savings, Alonzo Herndon walked out of the town he grew up sharecropping in and developed an empire of barber shops, real estate, and the Atlanta Life Insurance Company. He became a millionaire and a charter member of the Niagara Movement and National Negro Business League.
6EJjX TIL a medical theory which holds that the human appendix serves as a storehouse for good bacteria, and helps to "reboot" the human digestive system after a chronic or short term diarrheal sickness
k0wE TIL the family dog has a bigger carbon footprint than an SUV
xNkk TIL that Burger King stole it’s name from a restaurant in Matoon, Illinois and was sued in federal court. The outcome was that the franchise could exist but not in Matoon, Illinois.
b6M7j TIL of Australia's 1975 constitutional crisis, in which the Prime Minister was removed from power by the Governor-General (representing the Crown in Australia) without an election