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TIL British eggs are illegal in the US for being “unwashed” and American eggs are illegal in the UK for being “washed”

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nW4Do TIL about “compersion”, which is the emotion associated with seeing your romantic partner have sexual relation with another, and is practically the opposite of jealousy.
a88WJ TIL the funeral procession for Ulysses S. Grant contained more than 1.5 million people. Pallbearers for Grant included four Civil War Generals, Sherman, Sheridan, Johnston, and Buckner.
wLxR7 TIL in 1985 the US tested a robotic anti-aircraft tank, the M247 Sergeant York. The tank malfunctioned and locked its guns onto a review stand packed with top generals. Mercifully it didn't fire, but did subsequently attack a portable toilet instead of a target drone.
W7Vjd TIL that Lake Superior has an island which has a lake which has an island which has a pond which has a boulder, which, when the pond floods, becomes the largest island in the largest lake on the largest island in the largest lake on the largest island in the largest lake in the world.
x9Dg TIL the original Zoboomafoo is still around and has fathered five children