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TIL Food Network’s Chopped can take up to 14 hours to film a 30 minute episode and can include judging rounds of up to 90 minutes each

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Wkjvo TIL the Swiss Federal Railways’ centralised lost and found service is still seeking the owner of a packet of gold bars worth CHF182k (since Oct '19). The most valuable misplaced object on their trains, however, remains a 1727 Stradivarius violin in 2012, estimated to be worth CHF2.6 million.
negNP TIL During the Great Depression, members of the Civilian Conservation Corps planted over 3 billion trees in the US in under ten years.
9w7Z7 TIL After the US Navy lost the USS Thresher in 1963, it instituted a quality assurance program called SUBSAFE for its submarines. As a result they went from losing 16 submarines to non-combat reasons in the 48 years before, to losing only the USS Scorpion (which wasn’t SUBSAFE certified) since 1963.
DQ0pD TIL of WWII vet Bert Shepard, the only man to ever pitch in Major League Baseball with an artificial leg
mWdx TIL that state vegetable of Oklahoma is the Watermelon…which is a fruit.