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TIL that Japan sells its rare Kobe beef to just three restaurants in the United States so that “Kobe steak” that you just ate is probably fake

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DQLBD TIL following the Civil War an estimated one-third to one-half of circulating currency was counterfeit
07VR TIL Steven Spielberg often asks his stars to forego a fee in favour of a percentage of the gross profits. Tom Cruise took 15% of ‘Minority Report’, amounting to $53.7 million…
nWnZ9 TIL Otávio Jordão da Silva Cantanhede, a 20-year-old Brazilian amateur football referee,was lynched, beheaded and quartered by football spectators after he stabbed a player to death in a match he officiated on 30 June 2013
mrAp TIL that in 1848 a panorama of Cincinnati was made using a special type of photo called daguerreotypes. In 2007, researchers discovered that each frame had detail equivalent to a 140 gigapixel digital photo.
4ZJa TIL the reason there are no baby pigeons sightings is because they leave their nest effectively in adult size