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TIL: The United States top export to China is Garbage

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QNo9E TIL that the world's most expensive coffee, Kopi Luwak, is made from beans that have been eaten and excreted by civet cats, giving them a unique taste due to the fermentation process in the cat's stomach.
JMal TIL it costs $65,000 to climb Mount Everest
VadD TIL in 1953 that Austrian Inge Sargent married a Prince from Burma (Myanmar), but he didn’t tell her he was a Prince until they sailed back to Burma and were greeted at the docks by hundreds of well-wishers.
GAA6E TIL "Biosphere 2" was a closed ecological system which produced food sufficiency for the seven human inhabitants
16DwX TIL the liquid ban on planes wasn’t caused by 9/11 but by British MI5, who foiled a 2006 terror plot involving liquid explosives disguised as soft drinks.