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TIL To relinquish a U.S citizenship you must pay a $2,350 State Department fee.

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GB77 TIL: The same man who left Hugh Glass for dead (The Revenant) later lied to the Donner Party about Hastings Cutoff, sending them to their fate.
M7gl8 TIL of Bikini Atoll, a coral reef in the Marshall Islands which served as a nuclear test site for the US in WWII, and after which the bikini swimsuit and Spongebob's Bikini Bottom are named.
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