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TIL you could add a billion people to the US population and it would remain the third most-populated country

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pYm4G TIL that there used to be a government agency in the United States whose only responsibility was tasting imported tea
YY7Z TIL of a 12 year old boy, Hunter Scott, who in the course of doing a history project for school, found enough evidence to lead to a Congressional investigation that ended up exonerating a US Navy ship’s captain for wrongdoing, 55 years after his court martial.
XEjLQ TIL the man dancing with no shirt on and a straw hat in the music video for "Pink Houses" is Harvey Goodin, who at the time was the mayor of Austin, Indiana.
R7nK9 TIL the Guinness Book of World Records has vehemently refused to validate any attempt at the world record for the longest time spent awake, believing that it's dangerous to human health. The current record is 264 hours or around 11 days, which was set by a high school student as a science project
GLe5 TIL of the “Women Are Wonderful” effect: that people associate more positive attributes to women than to men, in general. While this attribution was true of both genders, woman’s in-group bias was 4 times greater than men’s.