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TIL The 1940 census is online and you can search for ancestors easily.

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DQdyY TIL the 2023 Canadian wildfires burned an area larger than approximately 55% of the combined land area of all EU countries (9,419,818 hectares)
9QLm TIL During the horsemeat scandal earlier this year, meat pie from Iceland was tested and was found to contain no meat
6Enwl TIL that in 1975, Sean Connery co-wrote a script for a Bond film called "Warhead". It features Spectre, from a secret base in the Statue of Liberty, launching an attack on NYC. Robotic hammerhead sharks, armed with nuclear weapons, are sent into the city’s sewers to wreak destruction as they explode
gA44 TIL the original pledge of allegiance was completely secular. It was only in 1954, 12 years after its formal adoption, that a group of right-wing religious elements pushed for the phrase “under God” to be added, claiming it was “definitive factor in the American way of life.”
WkORo TIL The first recorded instance of a person living in three centuries was that of Margaret Ann Neve, a woman from the British island of Guernsey who lived from 1792 to 1903.