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TIL According to a poll from 2019, Americans are among the most stressed-out people in the world.

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nerNG TIL SR-71 pilot Bill Weaver survived plunging from more than 78k feet after his plane malfunctioned and fell apart around him at more than 3 times the speed of sound. The force of the disintegration was so massive he was ripped from his ejection seat. Two weeks later he was back flying the Blackbird
NZ1Q TIL The US is the only first world country that uses the electoral college for presidential elections.
dD0Br TIL the code "HTTP 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons" is named after Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451, in which books were illegal and burned. This error can appear when the requested information cannot be shown for legal reasons, such as the web page being censored by the government.
8BVL TIL there is a 6-year high school in Chicago where students graduate with an associate’s degree on top of a high school diploma, along with a $40,000+ job opportunity at IBM.
WkjyB Till Python hunting is allowed in Florida's Everglades as a measure to control the non-native snake, the Pythons originally pets released by their owners have become an invasive species. The giant snakes have decimated local bird populations and wildlife because it has no know natural predators.