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TIL Brasil has a town called Americana inhabited by confederate descendents

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QK0L TIL that the United States, with less than 5 percent of the world’s population, buys more than 50 percent of its prescription drugs. And it buys them at prices designed to subsidize the rest of the industrial world, where the same drugs cost much less
LkQbr TIL: After testifying against the Cosa Nostra in 1984, Salvatore Riina ordered the murders of an informant's two sons, brother & 33 of his other relatives
ZpmaY TIL: 'The Voice' actor in Field of Dreams (who says "If you build it, he will come") has never been revealed
v1ooK TIL A temple housing a 500-ton statue of the Buddha was commissioned by Emperor Shomu in response to an epidemic which wiped out one third of the Japanese population. Casting the statue almost bankrupted the country.
0dXPp TIL Venus fly traps will grow their own flower stalks long in order to save the pollinator bugs from being trapped and eaten