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TIL China consumes nearly 75% of the worlds pickles

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4kpKR TIL : Spiro Agnew was the highest US official to receive a felony
WE18 TIL a nine-year-old girl’s science project thoroughly discredited Therapeutic Touch as a healing tool. The study was published in the JAMA, and it’s use in medical settings declined rapidly.
R7oO7 TIL Saudi Arabia’s royal family’s net worth of $1.4 trillion, makes the family roughly 16 times as wealthy the British royal family, which has a net worth of $88 billion.
J1mVm TIL When The Dick Van Dyke Show premiered in 1961, Mary Tyler Moore was 24 years old, portraying Laura Petrie, who was 17 at the time of her marriage to Rob Petrie. Dick Van Dyke was 35, playing Rob, whose age was implied to be in his early 30’s.
jNydQ TIL that, in 2010, over a hundred bottles of 170 year old champagne were salvaged from a shipwreck. Scientists analysed the liquid and even let themselves each sip 1ml. Apparently it still tasted great!