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TIL The Metal Gear Solid 3 meal Calorie Mate is a real product from Japan.

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VQnm TIL that in 1983 Ronald Reagan said “There are some people who would have you so stand on principle that if you don’t get all that you’ve asked for, you jump off the cliff with the flag flying…I believe half a loaf is better than none and that…you’re not going to always get everything you want.”
e0Z0g TIL Saturn, an American Alligator born in 1936, who is rumored to have been a favorite of Hitler. After the Battle of Berlin he was captured by the British and given to the Soviets. He was moved to Moscow Zoo after the war where he still lives today.
8eJjK TIL that the reason UK Pubs had stupid names, was so the illiterate patrons could find them with the artwork.
xRKb TIL Columbus thought that some manatees he saw were mermaids. He wrote that they were ‘not half as beautiful as they are painted’
jn6j TIL Luxembourg is the second wealthiest country in the world (based on per capita GDP).