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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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ZWka TIL fans promoting the TV show Supernatural got #LuciferIsComing trending to promote Lucifer’s return, prompting it to be blocked by Twitter following complaints. Actor Misha Collins tried to continue it with #PDiddyIsScaredOfHisTV, which too was blocked.
awBDA TIL that Ohio and Michigan "went to war" in 1835 in a border dispute called the Toledo War. No one was killed, but one man got stabbed.
p8rK8 TIL about "Brazilian Schindler"; Souza Dantas, an ambassador from Brazil in nazi-occupied France in 1940's, risked his life giving visas to hundreds of jews and others. Against the will of the Brazilian government at the time, he saved around 800 people from certain death.
9wk4p TIL Poland was the only eastern bloc country to transmit the moon landing on state television.
awWKZ TIL in 2012 three anti-nuclear activists, including an 82-year-old nun, managed to break into an US government nuclear complex, paint anti-war slogans on the enriched uranium storage building, and spend several hours in the complex before being stopped by a lone guard.