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TIL all the decor on the walls of every Cracker Barrel restaurant are not only authentic, but also picked, restored, and decorated by a Tennessee man and his small team.

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mxewO TIL that the US accidentally created an artificial radiation belt around the earth in 1962, by detonating an hydrogen bomb in the upper atmosphere. It resulted in the destruction or damaging of 30% of the satellites in lower earth orbit, and knocked out electric devices 1 300 km away from the blast
xAWw TIL the Oscar nominated documentary “Liberators” narrated by Denzel Washington, interviewing African American soldiers who liberated Buchenwald concentration camp was pulled by PBS when an investigation showed no African American GI’s played a role in the liberation of Buchenwald.
4eDR TIL people started dying cheese orange back in the 17th century to fool people into thinking it was higher quality
R79rQ TIL Researchers found that the best way to protect against heart disease was to drink beer daily, or almost daily, but to limit consumption to between half a litre and one litre a day
p88pA You carry around enough bacteria to fill a large soup can