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TIL NYC had a higher GDP than Mexico.

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woJaW TIL that one the oldest types of cheese is Callu de Cabreddu. It’s made by taking the stomach out of freshly slaughtered youg goat, while still full of it’s mothers milk, tying it and letting it hang to dry and age.
Z8ZRQ TIL Charles Babbage "the father of the computer" also invented the pilot , the pointy thing on the front of older trains, to remove cows from the track.
Me6OV TIL that the 30 second ad on television was created after tobacco companies could no longer advertise (1971), that the 15 second ad was inspired by MTV (1984), and that the "unskippable" 5 second ad was created by Geico after research showed 94 percent of YouTube viewers skipped prerolled ads (2015)
p81pp TIL Betty White was originally set to play Blanche and Rue McClanahan was set to play Rose. However, with neither actress wanting to be typecast, Golden Girls producers allowed them to switch parts.
NXkmQ TIL from 1807 to 1890 the tiny archipelago of Heligoland in the North Sea was controlled by the British Empire. The British gained control during the Napoleonic Wars, and the islands were ceded to Germany in 1890 in return for various colonial holdings in East Africa.