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TIL semen has the same amount of vitamin c as an orange

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9wykQ TIL The Wieliczka salt mine, excavated from the 13th century, produced table salt continuously until 1996, as one of the world's oldest operating salt mines. It is now a UNESCO world heritage site, with four chapels and numerous statues carved by miners and contemporary artists out of the rock salt.
pRvZ TIL that nearly 4 million Indians died in 1942 because of an artificial famine caused by the British government
g6M8 TIL When Fidel Castro seized power of Cuba He banned the board game ‘Monopoly’ and ordered every set to be destroyed because He perceived it as the pure embodiment of capitalism
0wMdN TIL that when they started Apple, the amount of memory to hold a song cost about a million dollars.
7K7Z TIL That President George Washington personally led 12,950 men to western Pennsylvania to quell the whiskey rebellion and assert the power of the federal government, one of only 2 sitting presidents to lead an army while in office, the rebels disbanded and fled.