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TIL France is the World's leading water purificator and has most availability to its citizens.

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oReoL TIL that the song "Take Me Home, Country Roads" was written about a road in Maryland, by a songwriter from Massachusetts that was living in Washington, DC, and had never visited West Virginia.
g6aD TIL an experimental program called Mincome existed in Canada in the 1970’s and gave everyone a minimum income just for being a citizen. It resulted in slightly fewer hours worked, but saw overall increases in health, happiness, and educational achievement.
6EYZX TIL: The hybrid offspring of a male tiger and a female lion is called a Tigon & that of a male lion and a female tiger is called a Liger.
8e6OG TIL the largest newborn ever recorded was "Babe", a 22-lb and 28-inch boy born in Seville, OH on Jan. 19, 1879. Sadly he only lived 11 hours. His parents, Anna Haining Bates and Martin Van Buren Bates, were both almost 8 feet tall.
WA7o TIL that the “American” flags at Disney’s Magic Kingdom intentionally contain less than 50 stars so that they don’t have to be taken down in poor weather or lit up at night.