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TIL 75% of all Silent Films Have Been Lost

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R5r7a TIL Willow Creek, California is known as " Bigfoot Capital of the World" and has a Bigfoot Museum housing 30 plaster cast footprints, including one measuring 16 inches. It is close to Bluff Creek, where the famous Patterson Gimlin Bigfoot footage was filmed
VME04 TIL when you are eating a pineapple, it is technically eating you as well. Pineapple is the only known source of Bromelain, a protein-digesting enzyme found in all parts of the fruit.
jNZVX TIL that when the British burned the White House in 1812, they did not burn the Marine Barricks or the Commandant's House out of respect for the honorable conduct of the Marines at the Battle of Bladensburg
9YZjX TIL one of the only ways for Americans to reset their credit score is to move to another country.
nWym7 TIL Amarillo, Texas was the sole producer of commercial helium in the world for a number of years and now houses the National Helium Reserve, which once held over 1 billion cubic meters (about 170,000,000 kg) of helium!