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TIL Blackbeard was only an active pirate for two years

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VMJPG TIL the Pacific NW is responsible for the majority of hop production in the U.S. with 99% of all production occuring in Washington, Oregon and Idaho. In 2017 Washington State alone produced 75.4% of the total hops in the country, the majority of which was grown in the Yakima Valley region.
mxYnP TIL of Witold Pilecki, a member of Polish resistance who volunteered to be imprisoned in the Auschwitz death camp to gather intelligence in 1940. He later escaped and was the author of Witold's Report, the first comprehensive Allied intelligence report on Auschwitz and the Holocaust.
5YKPB TIL That your brain doesn’t stop developing at the previously thought age 21-24 and new studies show it may even keep developing until age 40
Z8rKa TIL about the Chinese town of Qiaotou, the 'button capital of the world'. Around 60% of the world's supply of clothing buttons are produced there, as well as 80% of the world's zippers
mPlP TIL the 1964 Hollywood War Spectacular ‘The Battle of the Bulge’ was so historically inaccurate, that President Dwight D Eisenhower came out of retirement and held a press conference just to denounce the film.