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TIL there are millions of American citizens living in American territories that don't have the right to vote for their President, among other things.

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lOmK TIL that 90% of Mozilla’s revenue comes from a contract with Google to be Firefox’s default search engine
ZQLp TIL that punk label Stiff Records released an album called “The Wit & Wisdom of Ronald Reagan” that was blank on both sides. It sold 30,000 copies.
dDVwj TIL the link between creative genius and mental illness. That highly creative artists have temperaments more akin to manic depressives than to the general public
D99P TIL the most radioactive place on earth isn’t Chernobyl or Fukushima, but a lake in the southern Urals that was once home the the Soviet’s nuclear waste storage area. You could receive a lethal dose of radiation in 30 minutes just standing on the shore of the lake.
j6QKR TIL that human bones are about five times stronger than steel of the same density ! Despite being lightweight, human bones have a compressive strength of about 170 megapascals stronger than many types of steel. The femur, in particular, can support 30 times the weight of a human body.