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TIL bookworms are a real problem and can cause significant damage to your books

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yVrBe TIL Philadelphia Cream Cheese is produced in New York, and always has been since it was invented by William Lawrence in 1872. He named his company Philadelphia to market off of the city's reputation for high quality dairy products.
b9xLa TIL of Hope, an albino turtle that has her heart exposed due to a hole in her chest. The case is so rare that there is no existing name for this medical condition
E1L9W TIL: President Nixon, wife Pat, and Henry Kissinger took lessons and practiced for months to learn to use chopsticks properly, in preparation for the dinner banquet on his visit to China in 1972.
9YJ87 TIL U.S.A has an official strategic plan to combat a zombie apocalypse. Its called as Counter-Zombie Dominance Plan, or “CONPLAN 8888-11". The first line of the plan states, “This plan was not actually designed as a joke.”
grWYy TIL in 1988, the experimental group Negativland put out a press release claiming their tour was cancelled due to their music being linked with David Brom's axe murder of his family. In reality, the cancellation was due to lack of funds. This did not, however, stop news reporters taking up the story.