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TIL that coffee can only be grown commercially in two U.S. states: California and Hawaii. 90% of coffee consumed in the U.S. is imported, mostly for South America.

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xoko TIL There is a town in California that is about 75% cemetary.
R7Gxj TIL Theodore Roosevelt's daughter Alice had a pet snake named Emily Spinach. She liked to carry it around the White House in her purse and take it out at unexpected moments.
69GJY TIL In 1924, the federal government funded enormous concrete arrows to be built every 10 miles or so along established airmail routes to help the pilots trace their way across America in bad weather conditions and particularly at night, which was a more efficient time to fly.
goRL TIL It costs $44,563 to incarcerate a prisoner for a year in California—nearly the same price as a year at Harvard University with room and board
e0kog TIL one of the 'unwritten rules' of the Tour de France: if the Tour is passing through where one of the riders grew up, everyone will slow down to let that rider lead the whole Tour through his hometown (also, if the race leader needs to stop to take a pee break, everyone else slows down/stops too)