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TIL The majority of white voters have voted for Republicans in every presidential election since Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s

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wL1E6 TIL Iceland is one of the few countries that is mosquito-free despite having 1600 species of dryland animals. However, in 1980 a professor of the University of Iceland found a mosquito on a plane and it is now kept in a jar at the Icelandic Institute of National History.
yQyOw TIL that the method of pasteurizing grape juice to halt it from naturally turning into wine has been attributed to a British–American physician and dentist, Thomas Bramwell Welch. Welch was also active in the Underground Railroad and aided in the transportation of freed slaves to Canada.
b4Zj TIL the last feudal state collapsed in 2008, a tiny island called Sark where cars, street lights and divorce are illegal
j6jAj TIL Serj, Daron, and Shavo of System of a Down all went to the same elementary school. Although they were not acquainted at the time due to a gap in their ages.
9JaX TIL archive.org has a DMCA preservation exemption that LEGALLY allows download of 42gb of MAME ROMs