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TIL NASCAR fans were upset when Movoto, a real estate brokerage firm in San Mateo, Calif, used a rating system to list the top 10 most "redneck" cities in America

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grLm4 TIL it would cost at least $130,000 to charter a one way flight to get home to my kid like the mom tries to do in Home Alone. The McAlisters are loaded.
W79Xd TIL Marthe Cnockaert was Mentioned in Dispatches, awarded Legions of Honour and the Iron Cross for her WW1 service. The Iron Cross was for medical services to Germans while the others were for Allies spy work. Cnockaert was captured but not executed because of her Iron Cross, she survived the war.
gMOL TIL the 2006 movie ‘Children of Men’ featured content depicting the London 2012 Olympic games
KYNd6 TIL that ~8 billion people are estimated to have latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI), meaning they carry the Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria without exhibiting active disease symptoms (~25% of the worlds population)
Z8ZdY TIL That the Memorial hall of the Canadian War Museum was designed in such a way that sunlight will only frame the original headstone of the unknown soldier once each year on the 11th of November at 11:00 am