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TIL that an acre is the amount of land that can be plowed by a pair of oxen in one day.

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j6PoX TIL French Chef Marc Veyrat sued The Michelin Guide over demoting his restaurant from 3 stars down to 2. The greatest sin in Veyrat's eyes was that he was accused of serving English cheddar cheese in one of his soufflés.
VMw8G TIL It's nearly impossible to read in your dreams due to the inactivity of those parts of the brain while asleep.
VMvp0 TIL in her nearly 70 year reign, the Queen has visited 116 countries in the world, but Greece is not one of them, despite her husband been born there. The reason is believed to be that Philip hates his birth country, because of how they treated his family over the years
7AX TIL in 1983 an Israeli pilot sucessfully landed an F-15 with only one wing. In fact he didn’t realize the extent of the damage until after landing, and stated he would have ejected had he known.
lnQ5 TIL in 1761, 60 slaves survived a shipwreck and lived on a 200 acre island 300 miles form land for 15 years