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TIL that 16 US states have flags for their governors

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GZ4N TIL Angelina Jolie sold the first pictures of her biological children for a total of 23.7 million dollars. She donated it all to charity.
j68EQ TIL that 60s counterculture leader Abbie Hoffman's suicide note, dated 1989, read: "It's too late. We can't win, they've gotten too powerful."
lokAa TIL researchers have been working for years to develop a strain of coffee plant which is naturally decaffeinated. While they made progress, there's a big drawback. Caffeine functions as a natural insecticide. By removing it from the plant, you leave the crop more vulnerable.
d6M7 TIL of the Sagrada Familia: A church in Barcelona that has been under construction for over 130 years, and is still not expected to be complete by 2026 at the earliest estimate.
vJRR TIL after the Nazi’s occupied Warsaw, 80% of the city was destroyed and reconstruction efforts were guided by a series of 1700s cityscape paintings. It was later discovered the painter had made artistic “improvements” … so the rebuilt structures looked different (arguably better) than before.