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TIL that, by law, the Metric System is the preferred measurement system in the United States.

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R7WBl TIL In 2019, 47 of Beethoven's surviving relatives met up for Beethoven's birthday in his hometown of Bonn, Germany. In 2020, Bonn - along with multiple other German cities - will celebrate Beethoven’s 250th birthday
0w50N TIL America's last wooly Mammoths died of thirst 15 000 years ago after the land bridge to Russia eroded stranding them on a small, remote island Alaskan Island.
l7jm7 TIL Columbus used foreknowledge of the 1504 lunar eclipse to convince indigenous Jamaicans to support him
a8YvJ TIL that it's illegal to make or sell products with dog or cat fur in the United States
994r TIL Miner Max Hirschberg was so desperate to get to the gold fields in Nome he rode a bicycle 1200 miles down the frozen Yukon river in -30 degree weather.