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TIL the Colorado state slogan is “Enter a Higher State”

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eZ9n TIL of a Dutch nursing home which provides free housing to college students in return for being good neighbors, interacting with older residents, attending parties, etc to ward off loneliness and depression common in the elderly.
awAmb TIL tea was so important to wartime Britain, that in 1942 the government attempted to purchase all the tea in the world
oj57 TIL - Lake Jackson, TX has streets named This Way, That Way, Any Way, Circle Way, Parking Way, Winding Way, His Way, and Which Way.
oRnRK TIL that the time period in which dinosaurs lived is so vast, there were dinosaur fossils when dinosaurs were still alive.
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