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TIL Lego is the largest tire manufacturing company in the world, producing over 318 million units every year. That is over 870,000 units every day.

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Lkr19 TIL that there is no official language of the USA
JYyYV TIL that the USA dropped thousands of food packages over Afghanistan as a way of trying to earn the goodwill of the local population. Unfortunately they were printed in languages the average Afghan couldn't read, and were the exact color as cluster munitions dropped during the same operation.
4Jg5 TIL the ZIKA virus was discovered in the Zika forest of Uganda in 1947 but only became a world health concern in 2007
nEkb TIL In 1965 at age 90 and with no heirs Jeanne Calment sold her apartment to lawyer André-François Raffray on a contingency contract. Raffray, aged 47 agreed to pay her a monthly sum of 2,500 francs until she died. Raffray ended up paying Calment >$180,000; more than double the apartment’s value.
Lbr TIL that before anti-venom, the black mamba had a 100% mortality rate