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TIL the NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade is older than the USA

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XE956 TIL on Jan 23, 1960, about 9 years before the moon landing, Jacques Picard and John Welsch reached the deepest point in the ocean, known as The Challenger Deep. They descended into the Mariana Trench for 4 hours and 47 minutes in a submarine barely large enough to fit the two men.
PN7Z TIL that a Starbucks white hot chocolate has 78 grams of sugar (2 cans of soda), and over 500 calories, more than a McDonald’s BigMac
b6pvE TIL that ‘natural products from bacteria (and their derivatives) account for half of all commercially available pharmaceuticals’
GrXQ TIL that “Fuck your ancestor to the eighteenth generation” is a Chinese insult, due to the high respect for one’s ancestors
6ElNl TIL 99% of consumer grade fireworks are made in China