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TIL in October 2020, Oreo constructed a concrete bunker in Svalbard, Norway, to protect their recipe in case of an asteroid impact. The vault also contains Oreos wrapped in Mylar and vials of milk powder.

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ne5kb TIL the white noddy or fairy tern, native to tropical Pacific islands, is notable for laying its egg on a bare branch in a small depression without a nest. It is also considered one of the most useful of land-finding birds to mariners since these seabirds generally roam within 45 km of their island.
epmV4 TIL about Alexis St. Martin who had a hole in his stomach after getting shot. At the time not much was known about the stomach and digestion so a physician performed experiments on St. Martin e.g. dangling meat through the hole directly into the stomach.
nWmVr TILL that it’s not against any regulation or law for a hotel to have bedbugs in New Mexico
O9gg TIL that Mao Zedong killed more people than Hitler and Stalin together.
4Xk1g TIL there is no longer anyone alive who was born in the 1800s