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TIL Many high-end chocolate companies employ professional chocolate tasters.

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pY9Np TIL: There is a shipwreck in a cave not far from New Zealand that contains close to 5 Million USD of gold.
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wolx8 TIL that Dan Quayle, Vice President of the U.S. (1989-1993) corrected a student's spelling of "potato" to "potatoe" in a spelling bee.
loj1B TIL the most common foreign languages for a US President to speak have been Latin (14) and Greek (9).
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