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TIL that U.S. states used to conduct their own censuses.
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TIL: Rice brokers were extremely influential during the Edo period. Rice brokers provided rice loans, set up the Kyoto central rice market, and introduced paper money. However, inflation, the inability of samurai to pay back their loans, and the debasement of rice ended the rice broker profession.
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TIL of two identical twins born in 1933 raised separately. One raised as a Catholic in Germany and joined the Hitler Youth while the other was raised Jewish in Israel and joined the Israeli Navy. They knew nothing of each other until they met at age 21
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TIL that East St. Louis has a higher murder rate than Honduras, the country with the highest murder rate in the world
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TIL that Little Groot dancing in Guardians of the Galaxy 2 was director James Gunn using motion capture
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TIL that the British NME Awards once had a category named "Bummer of the Year," in 1995. The winner was Kurt Cobain's suicide.