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TIL that asparagus touches 20 hands between field and market; is hugely labor-intensive to produce; and grows 7" per day

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neJAY TIL caller ID spoofing is LEGAL in the United States. I wonder why carriers lack the technology to detect and block spoofed numbers
69v6X TIL: The Third Reich produced a Titanic movie adaptation in 1943 used as propaganda blaming British and American capitalism for the tragedy
VMKKk TIL Cats rarely meow at each other, it was rather developed exclusively to communicate with people
9YoBB TIL That Finland, the country that consumes the most coffee in the world is also the happiest country in the world
9Yrbp TIL that there were more ancient capitals of Russia (though the country had another name then) and that scientists don't know which of two cities, Staraya Ladoga or Velikiy Novgorod, was really the capital. But what's more interesting is that you can see what archeologists have dig out at the both!