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TIL Over 80% of Nevada land is owned by the US Federal Government

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LkgGP TIL that East Germany invested the machinery, housing, farm training, and infrastructure necessary to increase the coffee production in Vietnam, in exchange for 50% of the Vietnamese coffee harvest for 20 years. The first usable harvest occurred in 1990, one year after the Berlin Wall fell.
Z8yaR TIL that Adam Sandler won BOTH Worst Actor and Worst Actress at the 2011 Razzie Awards for Jack and Jill
W7vQL TIL in the summer of 1977, New Yorkers turned the surrounding area around the Twin Towers into a makeshift beach using dirt excavated for the construction of the original World Trade Center.
xVEKw TIL about the Thach Weave, a dogfighting maneuver developed in WW2 by the pilot John Thach. It allowed slower American planes to defeat their faster, more agile Japanese adversaries. It is still applicable today.
5Y5x9 TIL: The “Imp of the Perverse” is the term for random thoughts or a person’s impulse to do something crazy like drive off a bridge.