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TIL That The Shetland Islands are closer to Norway than they are to Edinburgh

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MeEbB TIL if you are being questioned by authorities in the US and you choose to remain silent in response to a specific question, that silence may itself be construed as evidence of guilt, unless you specifically state that you're invoking your right to remain silent under the 5th Amendment.
rRdEW TIL of Terence Kirk, an American soldier who was captured by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor day and spent the entire war at a brutal prison camp. While there, he built a camera out of scrap, and took many pictures. After the war, he was put under a gag order, and only told his story 38 years later.
mnOO TIL the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), much like the FBI, has its own list of most wanted fugitives.
J1MLj TIL about Cornelius Cole (1822-1924), a U.S. Senator who was alive at the same time as both Thomas Jefferson (d. 1826) and Jimmy Carter (b. 1924)
9wpj6 TIL that a large port of NY State is considered Appalachia and has a Federal Commission overseeing the development of the impoverished population