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TIL that the human body has more than sixty kinds of sphincters.

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M7QLm TIL the US didn’t have the $15m to pay France for Louisiana, so they financed it through a banks in London. Napoleon had made the deal with the US to fund his war against Great Britain and Europe. Britain allowed this deal to go through only because they didn’t want France to have their NA territory
vWOB TIL that this day, in 1935, it became illegal for airplanes to fly over the White House. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s complaint that aircraft disturb his sleep prompts the new law.
oxbL TIL Kraft Macaroni Cheese (Microwaved macaroni with synthetic powder cheese) is Canada’s national dish and is the most sold grocery product in the country.
78oyL TIL that in 2009, hundreds of brightly-colored bird specimens were stolen from the Natural History Museum London. It was later found that a student had sold them online to be used for fly-fishing lures.
eYjn TIL the New York Times has given only one “poor” rating to a restaurant: Guy Fieri’s American Kitchen and Bar in Times Square