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TIL that 76% of the audience for The Simpsons is under 40 years old (as of November 2023)

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vBKL TIL at the 1900 Paris Olympics, the winners received valuable works of art instead of gold medals
JjWB TIL There is no mention of the color blue in The Odyssey, The Iliad and the Hebrew Bible because across all cultures, words for colors appear in stages. And blue always comes last.
oOK TIL that in 2009, a Guatemalan committed suicide by taking out a contract on himself using a hitman. He hoped this would help overthrow the current government and save the country.
p88M8 TIL that the drone usage in a war goes way back to 1995 and the war in Bosnia
ADVNo TIL July 28, 1915 the US invaded and occupied Haiti. They moved the financial reserves to the United States and then rewrote Haiti’s Constitution to give foreigners land-owning rights.