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TIL Brasil has a town called Americana inhabited by confederate descendents

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6EoLW TIL Steven Spielberg's father, Arnold Spielberg, traveled to Moscow as part of a delegation of electrical engineers from Phoenix. The trip coincided with an incident that is the subject of Steven Spielberg's 2015 film "Bridge of Spies." He is also still alive today at 103 years old.
ne0Wb TIL that in the past 20 years there has been 250,000,00 votes cast by mail-in vote and only 0.000006% were considered fraud (143 over 20 years)
R7KE6 TIL Why northern light is so valuable for painters and sculptors. It's because northern light is consistent during the day, no matter what position the sun is in. It doesn't move through the studio at different angles, the different intensities making it hard to keep colors consistent.
9Y817 TIL that Pete Brownell, of Brownell firearms, is also CEO of the NRA.
b68yZ TIL that in 2000, Robert Mugabe, then president of Zimbabwe, won the 1st prize jackpot in a national lottery organized by a government owned bank.