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TIL that Mexico is officially known as the United Mexican States.

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o4AE TIL in 1987 Lynne Cox swam from the United States to The Soviet Union (Little Diomede in Alaska to Big Diomede) and in the process eased Cold War tensions.
YpyBB TIL In the late 1950s, a top secret United States Air Force project known as Project A119 (A Study For Lunar Research Flights) aimed to detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon
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R5499 TIL that over a thousand pages of information was made possible by this woman & many others that allowed N.A.S.A. get to the moon.
wM5Y TIL The Australian Thorny Devil can drink water by standing in a puddle, directing water up along its skin to the corners of its mouth.