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TIL Tahiti is the surfing location for the 2024 Paris Olympics

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gyv4 TIL Saudi Arabia promotes practice of marriage between close relatives which has produced high level of several genetic disorder including thalassemia, sickle cell anemia, spinal muscular atrophy, deafness and muteness.
X0Gkk TIL: Michigan had a state-wide school contest to re-design their "I Voted" stickers
JEo4 TIL Stephen King kept a severe alcohol and cocaine addiction hidden from his family for eight years. He claims he kept the addiction well-hidden but eventually, “…the books [started] to show it after a while. ‘Misery’ is a book about cocaine. Annie Wilkes is cocaine. She was my number-one fan.”
0ppR TIL Mississippi “forgot” to abolish slavery 148 years ago so as of February 17, 2013 Mississippi officially abolished slavery by adopting the 13th amendment to the Constitution.
4kLGN TIL The geographical diversity of the caucasian land makes it stand out from the rest. So does, the facial features of the caucasian borns.