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TIL West Virginia is the only US State to be created entirely out of another state's territory.

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LkrYm TIL a revolution in Germany helped end World War One
nWGbY TIL about Monjeríos, where Indigenous girls in colonial California were forced to live in terrible conditions, abused, and even had their husbands chosen by priests.
N7PEE TIL that the first known recording of a human voice was made in 1860, but was only intended to show a sound wave visually, not to be played back. In 2008, it was optically scanned and converted to a sound file, revealing it to be a man singing "Au clair de la lune".
VMxGZ TIL: Norway and Senegal are the only national football teams that have never lost against Brazil (Norway has won twice and drawn twice)
Xpj6 TIL a woman who claimed to be a survivor of the 9/11 attacks and even became the president of World Trade Centers Survivors Support Group turned out to be lying and wasn’t even in the United States during the attacks.