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TIL mail-order marriages are less likely to end in divorce than marriages overall in the United States

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JYKVk TIL about Rio Rico an American town that was basically forgotten in Mexico and is the last piece of land ever ceded to a foreign power by the United States. It's residents were also granted US citizenship for having been born in the US.
W7Z09 TIL the tobacco company Philip Morris International founded and funded the Foundation for a Smoke-free World.
p8Rpe TIL that white mushrooms, cremini mushrooms, and portobello mushrooms are all the same mushroom but at different stages of growth.
5dgB TIL while most of Noah Webster’s ‘Americanized’ spellings (such as 'center’ and 'color’) caught on, some did not, such as his changing of 'tongue’ to 'tung’.
x6m1o TIL there's a color called Greige, which is a mix of grey and beige.