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TIL Reading, PA is 69% Hispanic

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78pQP TIL that in 1689, in response to the English Glorious Revolution, New York experienced a period of revolutionary anti-Catholic turmoil
5V5MP TIL: The B-52s performed the theme for The Flintstones and appeared in The Filtstones movie as "The BC-52s".
a8BYo TIL about D.R. kaprekar, a great indian recreational mathematician who discovered kaprekar's constant and other magical numbers , but lived a humble life as government school teacher in a small town.
N7GkP TIL that half the rice grown in California is the offspring of a mutant strain created in the early 1970s by radiation breeding