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TIL that only around 35% of Americans have passports. The figure is an all-time high.

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ne5xG TIL of the Biltmore Estate, a Châteauesque-style mansion built for George Washington Vanderbilt II and is the largest privately owned house in the United States.The grounds and buildings of Biltmore Estate have appeared in a number of movies such as the house of Richard "Richie" Rich, Jr.
x6Veg TIL author H.G. Wells married his cousin in 1891. The couple later separated when H.G. Wells fell in love with one of his students, Amy Catherine Robbins. This entire period was the most productive in H.G. Wells' whole writing career producing The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, among others.
aROA TIL German soldiers in American POW camps dramatically burned their German uniforms after being shown films of the atrocities of the Holocaust.
1Mlr TIL nuclear energy is the safest energy source in terms of human deaths - even safer than wind and solar.
464J TIL babylonians had museums 2500 years ago