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TIL that America consumes 100 acres of pizza per day.

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GA4lJ TIL there was a literary subgenre in the 1850s dubbed "Anti-Tom literature" created in response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. The books would attempt to justify slavery and paint blacks as being content in servitude.
mRRO TIL Ernest Hemingway invented a cocktail: Absinthe and Champagne or, “Death in the Afternoon.”
KYm8J TIL Chester (UK) does not have a west facing clock, due to it facing wales. So they literally would not give Wales the time of day
neoNY TIL that female tears contain an odorless chemical that reduces testosterone levels in men.
QJYZp TIL: SETI scientist received what they thought was a signal from an intelligent civilization that turned out to be coming from the microwave oven in the lunch room