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TIL the residents of Kalachi, Kazakhstan suffered from an affliction that caused them to fall asleep during daily activities for days or weeks on end. Officially, the explanation was carbon monoxide from a nearby abandoned uranium mine.

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R7ERj TIL The Selmer Company claims a 42 percent share of the U.S. professional band instrument market and 25 percent of beginner instrument sales. Over three-fourths of its unit sales are made to student musicians. Sales rose and fell in concert with the birth rate, albeit with a 10- to 11-year lag
geVW TIL that Mexico’s imports of fresh produce account for 69% of U.S. fresh vegetable import value and 37% of U.S. fresh fruit.
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9JX TIL there was a plan on July 20th, 2006 for everybody on earth to jump at the same time in an attempt to knock the earth out of it’s orbit and stop global warming
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