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TIL: Only 18,741 people (0.17%) of the 11 million that filled out a bracket for the billion dollar bracket challenge are still in the running after yesterday’s upsets.

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nZwd TIL, the Civil War prison camp Elmira had two observation towers constructed for onlookers. Citizens paid 15 cents to look at the inmates. Concession stands by the towers sold peanuts, cakes, and lemonade while the men inside starved
mx77O TIL that while living in the White House President Benjamin Harrison had two opossums named Mr. Reciprocity and Mr. Protection.
NWVP TIL Chad has the world’s healthiest diet even though it is an extremely poor nation. It has access to vegetables, fruits, beans and legumes, nuts and seeds, whole grains, and fish, but almost no availability of processed meat and sugary beverages, or foods containing trans fats or sodium
ZpG5a TIL of Bonin English, an English-based creole of the Bonin Islandssouth of Japan with strong Japanese influence, to the extent that it has been called a mixture of English and Japanese.
neQGB TIL The Germans possessed the largest calibered rifled weapon ever used in combat. It was a railway mounted artillery gun that weighted 1.3 million kilograms (3 million pounds) and was capable of firing a 7,000kg (15,000lb) shell 47 kilometers (29 miles). It was destroyed by the Germans in 1945.