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TIL Trash is America’s #1 export to China

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P1kLE TIL: The biggest company to ever exist was East India Company, at its peak it account for half of the world's trade.
170O TIL Attila the Hun’s sword, or the Sword of Mars was said to have been forged from the iron of a meteor and struck by lightning, given the blessing of Mars.
BrbJe TIL 'mana' is the spiritual life force energy or healing power that permeates the universe, in the culture of the Melanesians and Polynesians. Anyone or thing can have Mana. It is a cultivation or possession of energy and power, rather than being a source of power.
p8jNG TIL that from the Stalin-era to the early Brezhnev-era, the Soviet economy grew faster than the United States
4ZWa TIL that ‘never’ is a contraction of 'not ever’