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TIL America has been at war for 222 out of 239 years of existence.

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NXrOM Today I learned that early versions of the periodic table included a material called didymium as an element. It was later discovered that didymium was actually an alloy of praseodymium and neodymium.
lo8kr TIL while chewing gum, you can make it disappear by eating some chocolate. It is a chemical reaction of oils in chocolate with the gum
PYW1Z TIL Actor Paul Marcarelli – the Verizon Wireless “Can you hear me now?” guy – told “The Atlantic” magazine that the catchphrase plagues him so much that someone even said it to him at his grandmother’s funeral as her casket was being lowered into the cemetery plot.
oRYnr TIL the CIA committed a coup in Australia against a democratically elected prime minister in 1975.
yQl18 TIL Bill The Butcher (Gangs of NY) was head of the Bowery Boys gang who's territory was Bowery street today. Mostly made up of firefighters literally fighting other gangs to have control over putting out fires. Fights between gangs would often break out and the fires were sometimes never put out.