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TIL the average American dental student now graduates with $261,149 in debt.

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5Yrmr TIL that in 1985 the mayors of Rome and Carthage signed a symbolic peace treaty to end the state of war between the two cities technically going back over 2100 years.
aKEo TIL Mimi Pond wrote the Emmy-nominated series premiere of The Simpsons, but wasn’t invited to be a regular writer “because they didn’t want any women on staff at the time”
YpEyG TIL that because the two major seafaring provinces of the Netherlands in its Golden Age were Holland and Zeeland, the Dutch explorers originally named the largest landmass of Oceania Nieuw Holland (now Australia) and the two islands to the southeast Nieuw Zeeland (now New Zealand)
E1ard TIL when taking an oath of office, Kentucky officials have to swear they've never fought a duel with deadly weapons.
ewE TIL While filming Alfred Hitchcock’s movie “Rope” a camera operator’s foot was crushed. To avoid re-filming the scene he was gagged and hauled out of the studio.