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TIL that the United States has no official language

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Y7YBZ TIL Tom Hanks is related to Abraham Lincoln through a distant family connection. He is a third cousin, four generations removed, from the 16th U.S. president.
ZpGkD TIL In 2022, with 38.7 Million Readers, AARP The Magazine Remains America’s Most-Read Magazine for the 5th Consecutive Year
bjY4 TIL that a neutron star is so dense if you dropped a gummy bear from one meter above it would hit the surface in a nonosecond at around 7,000,000 KM/H with the force of 1,000 nuclear bombs.
ne17r TIL that in a 2018 English women's football (soccer) match, the referee, upon being without a coin for the pregame coin toss, had the team captains play rock paper scissors to determine which team would kick-off. The referee was subsequently suspended by the FA for three weeks
9wYRp TIL about the Degenerate Era, where the stars in our universe will run out of fuel, and the starry night sky we see today will no longer exist. Aging stars and stellar remnants will be too cold to support life. It's hypothesized to happen about 1 quintillion years after the Big Bang.