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TIL Australia has the longest continually producing shiraz vines in the world.

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kJkx5 TIL steamed hamburgers are an actual regional delicacy (though in Central Connecticut).
mxA0p TIL about the modern 300 - in 1821, during the Greek War of Independence, 120 Greek men held out against 8,000 Ottoman soldiers, causing 900 casualties against 6 of their own deaths. This bought time for the Greek army to regroup.
OWje TIL Japan has over 100 active volcanoes, about 10% of all the world’s active volcanoes.
vP8dD TIL the final line of Willy Wonka was originally written as Grandpa Joe yelling, 'Yippee!' The director hated it so much, he phoned up the screenwriter who was vacationing at a remote cabin in the woods and forced him to come up with a better line right on the spot as they were filming the ending.
1a51V TIL Ernest Thompson Seton, one of the founding pioneers of the Boy Scouts of America, was presented with an invoice for all the expenses connected with his childhood, by his father, including the fee charged by the doctor who delivered him. He paid the bill, but never spoke to his father again.