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TIL Wisconsin produces more cheese than Italy

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Qlx9 TIL a 19 year old Navy recruit was forced back into a pool after failing a training exercise, his instructors drowned him while other recruits were commanded to line up, turn their backs and sing the national anthem
NXYE1 TIL: That in 2014, a doctor in Wales was handed a suspended sentence for faking Viagra prescriptions because he said he was too embarrassed to see his GP. Staff became suspicious because the doctor worked in a trauma and orthopaedic unit, where patients would not normally need drugs for impotence.
EgWlW TIL China controls the companies that between them provide all the electricity to Lima, which is home to a third of the country’s population
54oB TIL 1100 hostages were taken during the Belsan school hostage crisis. After three days of standoff, Russian security forces stormed the building with the use of tanks, incendiary rockets and other heavy weapons. 330 hostages were killed, including 186 children.
67dm TIL that when a whale dies and its carcass falls into the Bathyal or Abyssal zone of the ocean floor, it can sustain a complex localized ecosystem of deep-sea organisms for decades. This is called a “whale fall”.