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TIL 1 in 30 births in the United States are twins.
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TIL The world's oldest hotel has been operating since 705 A.D. under the same family for 52 generations
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TIL Founder's Hall, a $4 million museum devoted to telling the story of Canada’s birth, located blocks away from the site of the 1864 Charlottetown Conference, shut down due to lack of interest. Visitors dropped from 40,000 a year in 2001 to 13,000 in 2015
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TIL about Kim Kahana. He survived a firing squad in the Korean War and later was the sole survivor of an airplane crash that killed 32. He earned a Silver Star, 2 Bronze Stars and 2 Purple Hearts. He has 6 black belts in karate, aikido and jujutsu. He has a long and successful career in films.
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TIL that many scholars believe that nursery rhyme "Ring around the Rosie" is written about the symptoms of Black Death, the most fatal pandemic recorded in human history.
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TIL the iconic music from “It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia” was made in the 1960s by German composer Heinz Kiessling, who died in 2003, two years before the show premiered.