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TIL the five worst cities in the US for air pollution are all in California

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MeNMV TIL Jeff Goldblum can play piano and has a prolific jazz career
07ky TIL in 2009, Burger King ran the “Whopper Sacrifice” campaign, which offered a free hamburger to anyone who deleted ten friends off Facebook. Facebook suspended the program because Burger King was sending notifications to the castoffs letting them know they’d been dropped for a sandwich.
VvEZ TIL that the average American woman now weighs as much as the average 1960s man
5V16D TIL that United Fruit Company, now Chiquita, played a major role in the 1954 Guatemalan coup d’tat after the country redistributed 400,000 acres of uncultivated company land.
y7w8 TIL in 1961 the US Air Force accidentally dropped two nuclear bombs on North Carolina, each more than 250 times the destructive power of the Hiroshima bomb, but nether exploded. One of them remains buried in the ground where it landed.