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TIL that Reese's Hearts have the highest percentage of peanut butter per cup.

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VMZ7B TIL about the Gray Goo Scenario, a hypothetical apocalypse scenario in which all life on earth is consumed into a gray biomass created by self replicating nanomachines
9YDAQ TIL there is a "Ceremonial South Pole," a location marked by a barbershop-style pole in the ground, set aside for photo opportunities at the South Pole Station. The real South Pole is a few meters away, marked by a "stake" in the ground, nearby a sign.
lgG5 TIL an entire village was built on the coast of Malta for the 1980 Popeye movie, and it’s still there
JOy1 TIL that in 1980, a Texaco oil rig drilled into the top of a salt mine underneath Lake Peigneur in Louisiana, causing the lake to drain into the sinkhole – swallowing 11 barges – and a nearby canal to reverse direction. All 55 miners in the salt mine escaped. The lake is now permanently saltwater.
4XGg5 TIL that since the 1800s, the decade with the highest rate of assassinations of heads of state around the world was the 1970s, and on average most assassinations occur in October.