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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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Na06 TIL a Swiss freediver held his breath for 19 minutes. Which is 1 minute shy of a blue whale.
yV5xv TIL that Samurai armour was largely made out of hemp (cannabis)
LQma9 TIL Until 1958 Popes were embalmed by having all their organs removed. Pious XII was against this so a novel method was used: it went so bad that his body started rapidly decaying while still in public view and the ceremony was canceled after the chemical reactions made the swiss guards fall ill
R7LY6 TIL In 1979 Sir William Arthur Lewis won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, becoming the first black person to win a Nobel Prize in a category other than peace
A8nw TIL Kiss has more greatest hits compilations (21) than studio albums (20)