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TIL the US-Canada trade relationship is the largest in the world, surpassing even US-China trade. The amount of goods crossing the Windsor-Detroit bridge alone is larger than annual US-Japan trade.

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R7666 TIL Palm Springs, California has their own Walk of Stars for people who lived in the PS area. Inductees include Chevy Chase, Natalie Wood, Kem Dibs, Ronald Reagan, and Cheeta the Chimp
E1K40 TIL in 1908, German housewife Melitta Bentz was tired of ground coffee leftovers in her coffee cup. As a consequence, she invented the paper coffee filter, founded a company, and became the employer of her own husband, in a time when women weren't even allowed to vote.
7xjO TIL that in 1977, Aerosmith’s flight crew inspected a Convair CV-240 for possible use and rejected it because they felt the plane and crew were not up to their standards. That plane crashed on October 20, 1977 from fuel exhaustion due to poor maintenance, killing three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd.
awngb TIL that the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, the first of its kind in the US, was formed in 1961 by a group of Holocaust survivors who met during ESL classes at Hollywood High School. Their personal artifacts, photographs, and memories became the museum’s initial primary collection.
pkBO TIL that in 1922, the New York Times reported that “several reliable, well-informed sources confirmed the idea that Hitler’s anti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded, and that he was merely using anti-Semitic propaganda to catch masses of followers and keep them aroused”.