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TIL that 53% of infants born in America are on food stamps

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M7bbA TIL that there was an African Roman Emperor by the name of Lucius Septimius Severus in Ancient Roman History. He was born in what is now, present day ‘Libya’, in the African continent.
0xPA TIL Japan is home to a 105-year-old sprinter and he hopes to race Usain Bolt one day.
BgKDe TIL that Andrew Johnson was so drunk during his Vice-Presidential inauguration that he gave a rambling, incoherent speech and couldn't administer the oath of office to incoming senators
ErgW TIL Margret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, said: “that abortion was the wrong way — no matter how early it was performed it was taking a life; that contraception was the better way, the safer way…because life had not yet begun.”
OQKX TIL that in 2006, Wikipedia had to permanently block all IP’s from the U.S. Congress. Why? Because they wouldn’t stop editing each others pages.