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TIL that all Perique tobacco, a pipe tobacco used in American Spirit Black cigarettes, is farmed on less than 16 acres of land in Louisiana, mostly by one man.

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e0LJk TIL about one in every 1500 people have something called Voluntarily Piloerection - the ability to consciously give themselves goosebumps. The phenomenon both perplexes and intrigues neurophysiologists by defying conventional understanding of how the unconscious nervous system operates.
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x6brB TIL - 0.1% of males in Greenland are circumsized.
VGWk TIL, Thomas Everett Blasingame was a Texas cowboy for seventy-three years. At ninety-one, he was still on the job at the JA Ranch south of Amarillo. Two days after Christmas in 1989, he dismounted his horse, Ruidosa, stretched out on the grass, folded his arms across his chest, and died.
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