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TIL United States has been stockpiling helium since the 1960s - 1.2 billion cubic meters

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xR9w TIL In 1880, Sunandha Kumariratana, the queen of Thailand, drowned helplessly While Her Subjects Watched Because They Were Forbidden to Touch Her
dPd7 TIL Sign language is not universal. There is about one sign language for each spoken language (and, for example, American English’ Sign Language differs from British English’ Sign Language).
DaD TIL: Old Crow Medicine Show’s “Wagon Wheel” was originally an unfinished song by Bob Dylan
6E78w TIL the US corn belt during corn season does more photosynthesis than anywhere else on the planet
NZWM TIL there have been more deaths in Chicago from gang violence than troops killed in Afganistan since 2001.