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TIL White People in the US purchase more than twice the cheese per capita than Black or Asian people.

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9bvG TIL that in 1944, on the verge of the Liberation of Paris, Hitler ordered it’s governor to leave it a “pile of rubble,” and destroy all religious and historical monuments. The Governor refused, saving Paris.
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