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TIL there are over 40,000 varieties of cultivated rice in the world

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60bJ TIL France is the only country with officially paid UFO investigators and it released its UFO files to the public through its website.
EPb7 TIL the towers at the startup of the ps2 represented how many games you’d played
9OD6 TIL During a major Civil War battle, both armies briefly stopped fighting to watch a fist fight between two opposing soldiers who had both taken cover in the same place.
oBvkL TIL In 1984 Anthony Tiffith robbed the chicken joint where Kenny Duckworth worked, but spared his life after taking a liking to him. Years later, Anthony would go on to found Top Dawg Ent. and unknowingly sign Duckworth's son, Kendrick Lamar, to his first record deal.
N7WAJ TIL that the limousine JFK was killed in was refurbished and occasionally used by Presidents Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Carter until 1977.