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TIL that in a 2014 poll, U.S. southerners were evenly split on whether Kentucky was a southern state.

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b9LZj TIL of Tillie Anderson; the Swedish seamstress-turned-undisputed women’s cycling champion of the 1890s, who won all but seven of her 130 races before women’s races ceased in 1902. She was inducted into the US Bicycling Hall of Fame in 2000, 35 years after her death at age 90.
AwWB TIL it would take 375,000 2x2 LEGO bricks stacked on top of each other to break the bottom brick
4XGVa TIL that Philips lightbulb company has a much more efficient lightbulb that they are not allowed to sell anywhere in the world outside of Dubi; the bulb lasts significantly longer than their other bulbs.
rNJkw TIL that by the third and fourth centuries most Roman citizens had entirely abandoned using parental given names (praenomen). Instead, they used clan names (nomen) or nicknames (cognomen)
R7711 TIL Male Fruit Flies Sexually Harass Females Until they Can’t Reproduce