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TIL the U.S. government has 1.4 billion pounds of cheese stored in a cave underneath Springfield, Missouri.

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P1n9e TIL the oldest known work of art is a seashell believed to have been carved by a Homo erectus between 540,000 and 430,000 years ago. Its extreme age suggests higher human traits evolved earlier than previously thought.
5YE5D TIL when former NFL safety Dave Duerson took his life he left a note that read, “Please see that my brain is given to the NFL’s brain bank.” He shot himself in the chest rather than his head so as to preserve his brain. Doctors confirmed that he was suffering from chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
j6enQ TIL A fossilized os penis of a walrus measured 4.5 feet long. Biblical scholars in 2015 argued it was the penis bone, not a rib, God removed from man to form Eve.
XE5ER TIL that during WWI, British newspapers falsely claimed that the Germans rendered down soldiers' corpses to make soap, candles and nitroglycerin. As a result, when news of the Holocaust reached Britain during WWII, the government assumed it was another made-up atrocity story.
VME98 TIL a company offered to mail your enemies glitter, but was so overwhelmed by success, it closed down