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TIL in 2015, a report found 100+ Walmart products labeled “Made in the USA” that are actually made elsewhere.

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gZyW TIL that a London photo developer destroyed all but 11 of the only photos of the June 6th DDay on Omaha Beach. The surviving shots are called the The Magnificent Eleven and inspired the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan
j684R TIL Leonhard Euler wrote 234 letters to 15 year old German Princess Friederike Charlotte over a period of two years in order to teach her math, physics, and sciences. These letters were later reprinted as a textbook for "every female academy in the kingdom"
NnAe TIL that the most ticketed car in the US is the Subaru Impreza WRX.
W7RpA TIL of Etta Mae Lopez, a California woman who waited outside a jail all day and slapped the first deputy who came out, in order to get sent to prison where she hoped to quit smoking
AeZg TIL a large patch of critically endangered Mount Diablo buckwheat wildflowers–thought to be extinct for nearly 70 years–was spotted at a nature preserve in CA. Location was kept secret for months for fear that hikers and vandals would destroy them.