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TIL Hawaii will provide its homeless residents with a one-way ticket back to the continental United States.

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d8mjQ TIL Mexico City’s Day of the Dead parade was invented for the James Bond film "Spectre" and then adopted by the city so tourists wouldn't be disappointed.
X0vpP TIL that the Dutch Caribbean, speaks a Portuguese-based creole (Papiamentu) and English as the majority spoken languages. Although Dutch is widely taught and known among locals.
69MQW TIL that American sculptor, Anna Coleman Ladd, crafted 185 face masks for returning First World War veterans with facial disfigurements from wounds.
d8Dwj TIL, George Carlin starred in a TV sitcom eponymously titled "the George Carlin show."
VWn8 TIL your brain makes decisions before you realize it, according to researchers that used brain imaging to predict what choice people would make before they themselves were aware of having made a decision—prompting reconsideration of what we consider “free will”