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TIL that 97% of the Amish use washing machines.

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Meb8A TIL that rats were thought to be carriers of the bubonic plague and that in Sydney, around 200,000 rats were caught to eliminate the disease.
69WOX TIL John Salling was recognized as Virginia’s last surviving Confederate veteran and lived to 1959 at claimed age of 112. Later census research showed that Salling was born in 1858 rather than 1846 and Virginia State Library didn't have his war records
YpDlB TIL that the first person to see human chromosomes through a microscope made a counting error, and published a paper in 1923 stating that there were 24 pairs of them. The error remained widely accepted as a scientific fact for 33 years until it was corrected.
6EPn7 TIL that the author of Forrest Gump had a deal to receive a lump sum and a cut of the film's net profits, but Paramount reported a loss and refused to pay him the cut. He settled with Paramount and they bought the rights to the sequel, which has been stuck in development for over a decade.
vYKK TIL Cherry Coke is banned in Canada.