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TIL New Mexico is bigger in area than Italy

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Z8XRa TIL that in the 1700s, pineapples were expensive, so rich American colonists would rent a pineapple and carry it around parties to show off their wealth.
N75NJ TIL that In-N-Out pays store managers an average yearly salary of more than $160,000. More than the typical California dentist, accountant or financial advisor.
E1v4o TIL More than 2,500 left-handed people are killed every year from using equipment meant for right-handed people. That’s Crazy!!
gp4L TIL of a Canadian child molester who posted about 200 swirled images of his face online molesting kids in Cambodia and Vietnam. German investigators figured out a technique for unswirling the images, leading to his arrest.
XP7r TIL that the Catholic Church does not support capitalism, libertarianism, or socialism, but instead a middle ground economic theory called Distributism. It promotes the widest possible distribution of the means of production.