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TIL the Las Vegas Strip is located in Paradise

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VA7G TIL that Shazam, formerly Captain Marvel, outsold Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and the entire comic books industry for most of the 1940s.
ne7gY TIL: FDR is related – by blood or marriage – to a total of eleven presidents: Washington, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Madison, Taylor, William Henry Harrison, Benjamin Harrison, Van Buren, Grant, and Taft.
awkVL TIL in Israel on May 2nd on Yom HaShoah a siren wails for 2 minutes across the country to remember the more than 6 million Jewish people who died in the Holocaust. All activity stops nationwide.
VBLQG TIL Decimate comes from the latin 'decimatio,' a form of military punishment in which one tenth of a group was executed for offenses like cowardice, mutiny, and desertion.
a876Z TIL that William Howard Russell, an Irish reporter for The Times, is considered to be the first modern war correspondent, and his coverage of the Crimean War was the first time that the British public could read about the realities of warfare