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TIL that CURRENT data shows Whites outnumber Blacks receiving welfare 2 to 1, despite a recent TIL using 18 yr old data claiming otherwise.

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78P5L TIL apparently all or most fish are soniferous and a group at the University of Victoria has begun compiling a recorded database of fish sounds from various species. The link goes to the toadfish's sounds.
8a4wa TIL about Mimizuka, a monument in Kyoto dedicated to the sliced off noses of killed Korean soldiers and civilians taken as war trophies.
4ZG6 TIL there is a child of a Civil War soldier who is still alive and receiving a monthly pension from the government ($73.13) for her father’s service in the Union Army.
R5ZQ4 TIL There's different kinds of boobies
091p TIL It’s completely legal for women to walk around topless in New York State