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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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mxZyR TIL two conniving brothers sold a counterfeit Goya painting for €1,500,000 just to find out all the money was fake, too
4XY0a TIL that Mattel makes a bald Barbie doll named Ella to give (free of charge) to kids with cancer. It comes with wigs and other accessories.
nW8NW TIL, at first, Andrew Johnson wanted the Confederate leadership to be tried for treason, but Ulysses S. Grant threatened to resign and Johnson backed down.
W0RX TIL that PETA once called for the practice of Indy 500 winners drinking milk to be banned, as it was cruel to calves as well as racist due to African-Americans having an enzyme which made milk difficult to digest
7r55M TIL the phrase "splice the mainbrace" was originally an order given on naval vessels describing a tedious and critically important emergency repair, but eventually it became a euphemistic order for giving an extra serving of grog or rum to sailors.