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TIL In 1940 85% Of Children Lived With Both Parents

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1Ra8 TIL that the EPA lets you see where your electricity comes from using your zip code
X0EvR TIL that of the 24 Franklin Counties in the United States, Franklin County, Idaho, is the only one that is not named after Benjamin Franklin; it is named after Franklin D. Richards, an Apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
N7WV8 TIL despite what the song American song, "Home, home on the range" says, antelope do not occur in the Americas
9yOM TIL of “iron harvest”, in which nearly 900 tons of WWI unexploded munitions are recovered each year by Belgian and French farmers after ploughing their fields.
9Y4eM TIL that out of the 50,000 workers that could have been in the world trade centre on September 11th 2001, only around 19,000 were there that day for two main reasons; because people were late taking their kids to the first day of school and voting at local polling station for the mayoral election