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TIL that small island archipelago St. Pierre & Miquelon is the only French owned territory in North America and is 30 minutes off the coast from Newfoundland, Canada. It was also a key part of alcohol smuggling into the US during the prohibition era.

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5YAMr TIL of the Tulsa Center of the Universe. An acoustic anomaly located in Oklahoma. When one stands in the center of the circle and makes a noise, that noise is echoed back several times louder than it was made, but no one standing outside the circle can hear a thing.
awPmA TIL that according researchers at London School of Economics, unmarried and childless women lead “happier” lives, are likely to outlive their married child-rearing counterparts and are healthier than them.
mxNXx TIL The electric vibrator was the fifth home electronic ever invented. It was prescribed to women who experienced what doctors called "hysteria" In addition: "If a woman became flushed and happy from her pelvic massage, she was said to have underwent a 'hysterical paroxysm.'"
AB1l TIL that Elephant Shrews are closer related to elephants than to shrews
xojb TIL Robert E. Lee defended the torture of slaves as something “they must endure,” because “pain was necessary for their instruction.” Lee regularly had mothers sold or rented away from their children, sometimes as punishment. Lee’s slaves said he was the “meanest man we ever saw.”