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TIL the third most successful political party in the United States by number of seats in state and national offices is the local Vermont Progressive Party, and it even holds a majority in the Burlington City Council.

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grbgW TIL Charles Dickens' novella "A Christmas Carol" is split up into 5 Staves instead of Chapters to mirror a traditional 5-line musical stave/staff structure to present his moral tale of Scrooge's transformation as a song/carol.
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644W TIL That in 1967, medical researchers at a Vermont state prison conducted an experiment where they had inmates gain up to 25% of their body weight in return for early release. For some of the volunteers, it was impossible to reach their target weights, despite eating up to 10,000 calories a day.