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TIL Aaliyah’s 1st album cover also has her name in phonetic spelling

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jN4Nn TIL the monstrous cyclops from Homer's "The Odyssey" loved cheese - and may have even "invented" feta.
woye7 TIL that Canada bas a strategic reserve of maple syrup stored in a 270,000 sq ft warehouse, containing over 55 million pounds of syrup, to help stabilize global syrup prices
8JyX TIL that Carl Sagan believed that Faith and Reason were partners; he said ““Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.” When asked in 1996 if he was Atheist, he replied “I’m agnostic.”
dvEr TIL the real-life home that inspired the movie ‘UP’ is a century-old farmhouse whose owner refused to sell it to developers, even for an inflated price of $1,000,000. Having lived there for over 50 years, she was content to let them build a giant biotech complex all around it.
9YxnB TIL of the Friendship paradox, a phenomena that was first observed in 1991. On average, most people have fewer friends than their friends have. At the same time they believe they have more friends than their friends have