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TIL New Mexico is bigger in area than Italy

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4kN56 TIL of Nihamanchi, a beer made from cassava and consumed by Indigenous peoples throughout the Amazon region. Its process involves chewing the cassava tubers, spitting them out into large jars and letting it ferment with the saliva. Its taste is described as like a "alcoholic buttermilk".
L8jQ TIL that in 1943, The U.S. banned sliced bread.
a8Z0 TIL A man was trapped under his dead 224 lbs wife for 3 days after she fell down the stairs on top of him
x6AQ5 TIL in 2022 when the pilot of a single-engine Cessna became incapacitated, an air traffic controller (who was also a certified flight instructor) helped a passenger on that plane who had no flying experience (but who had watched pilots before) successfully pilot the aircraft for 8 miles & land it.
KPy9 TIL a tractor trailer’s hitch came loose in Indianapolis and spilled 38,000 pounds of marbles on the roadway.