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TIL George Takei hires writers to contribute posts to his Facebook account

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nen7r TIL the "fresh is best" culture led consumers to wrongly see frozen produce as lower quality. It turns out frozen fruit & veg are equally nutritious. The freezing process slows nutrient loss which occurs after harvesting. Researchers found no real nutritional differences overall.
Ng1E TIL Abraham Lincoln was the first cat owner to become president.
WKEd TIL a gasoline engine vehicle has 2,000+ moving parts compared to 18 moving parts in an electric vehicle
woGy7 TIL in 1987, a robbery suspect fled and hid in a movie theater. But he was so fascinated by the movie he was watching that he didn't notice the other patrons were evacuated before he was taken into custody. The movie was Robocop
kORgW TIL that in 1969, at the height of the Cold War, the Apollo 11 crew carried commemorative medals to the moon to honor two Soviet cosmonauts who died as part of the USSR's human spaceflight program