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TIL Hawaii is the only state in the US to have a single school district and no local school boards.

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QN8Vd TIL: Paper planes were not made to mimic air planes. They predate airplanes by more than 2000 years.
N7e6e TIL Socrates condemned the use of the written word because he thought it would cause people to be forgetful.
51JQ TIL the Netherlands have the highest amount of tornadoes of any european country, followed by the UK
KRL9 TIL that when Uwe Boll made a bid to direct the Warcraft movie, Blizzard responded, “We will not sell the movie rights, not to you… especially not to you”
mxl7v TIL that certain areas of Hudson Bay, Canada have less gravity than the rest of the world.