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TIL the “fancy” label on some ketchup is actually a USDA grade.

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oReWA TIL French bread is not from France
e08mg TIL that your heart pumps enough blood per year to fill an Olympic size swimming pool( about 500,000 gallons)
6E5YZ TIL about Juan Pujol Garcia, a spy who single handedly saved thousands of lives during D-Day by using his made-up network of spies to convince the Germans that another attack was going to happen in Calais instead of Normandy. He was also the only person to be decorated by both the Axis and Allies.
Lk1X9 The winds at Jupiter’s surface, some of the most powerful in the solar system, influence the planet’s gravitational field, the latest observations show. This means that Jupiter’s signature, crisscrossing bands don’t just exist on the surface of the atmosphere. Jupiter’s wind flows actually extend 3,000 kilometres (about 1,860 miles) below the cloud tops, where the pressure is about 100,000 times that of the atmosphere at Earth’s surface.
loEMK TIL We rely on bees for roughly 1/3rd of all crop pollination