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TIL that about the Best Baguette in Paris competition. The winner gets to deliver a daily baguette to the president of France.

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9wKQM TIL about the Lost Apple Project, a nonprofit organization that searches abandoned farms in the Pacific Northwest to locate old apple varieties that have been thought to be lost or extinct. There were approximately 17k varieties of apples in the US, but only about 4.5k are known to exist today
YgA7 TIL things with a “Made in America” label are often times up to 90% made outside of the USA!
QJ6Y6 TIL Future unintentionally invented mumble rap in 2011 after he was too "high" to open his mouth while recording
wLRJE TIL A top NASA astronaut was accused of hacking her estranged spouse's bank account from space
N7WNQ TIL the reason the plural of goose is geese but moose isn’t meese is because ‘moose’ is Native American in origin and so follows different language rules than Germanic words like tooth/teeth, foot/feet and of course goose/geese.