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TIL that the Unification Church (aka 'The Moonies') supplies most of the sushi restaurants in the United States

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R7vJ1 TIL that the U.S. Surgeon General found that smoking caused more than 20 million premature deaths in the United States between 1965 and 2014
LQgxv TIL The oldest building in the United States is a Spanish monastery from the 13th century looted in the 19th century.
R5l59 TIL of the half-life of knowledge which pertains to the duration it takes for half of the knowledge within a specific field to become outdated or replaced.
5Ya0R TIL that there's an estimated 10 quintillion (10,000,000,000,000,000,000) insects alive at any moment, meaning that there's about 124 million animals per acre of land
OoeZX TIL in 1981, short on money and time, a Nebraskan family organised 344 volunteers to physically lift a 17,000 pound barn and shift it to higher ground.