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TIL the USA exported $124,021,998 worth of dairy cow semen in 2011.

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W769N TIL 1/10th of the American workforce struggles with addiction.
Ooew4 TIL that the longest war in recorded history lasted 335 years and 19 days. It was between the Dutch and the Isles of Scilly, there were no casualties, and the Dutch actually forgot about the conflict until a Scilly historian contacted them about it in 1985. A treaty was signed between them in 1986.
woKYJ TIL Gross Tonnage is Measure of a Ship’s Internal Space, Not its Weight.
gMWj9 TIL: If you choose cremation, you can have your ashes made into a rock to form the base of an “eternal memorial reef” so that you can help coral reefs bloom after you’ve died.
l7vxr TIL about the Cuban Rafter crisis resulting in 35k fleeing to u.s. by makeshift rafts. Resulted in 16k deaths (1994)