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TIL Hawaii is not part of any continent.

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4Xlo5 TIL about the AN-225, the largest aircraft built.Powered by six turbofan engines and with a wingspan almost the length of a football field, this gentle giant of the skies can carry bigger and heavier cargo than any other plane, and is unique in the world of aviation, as just one was ever built.
0PDj TIL in 1998 40% of antibiotics in the United States went to livestock. By 2011 that had risen to 80%.
vP0GL TIL that from June 2004 to November 2005, Phil Collins embarked on his "First Final Farewell Tour", a reference to the multiple farewell tours of other popular artists
woMjP TIL that on 10th February 1890 an estimated 180,000 mummified cats, weighing 19.5 tons, were shipped from Egypt to Liverpool, auctioned, and sold for fertilizer
BgKVe TIL that miners in Mexico discovered a cavern deep underground filled with gypsum crystals up to 11m long