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TIL the company that makes “Spam” meat refers to internet spamming as “unwanted emails” instead of spam.

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X0P4P TIL that the U.S town of Point Roberts, Washington is actually located in Canada
p8aQb TIL that botanists in Kew Gardens (UK) bought a £1.29 bag of supermarket porcini mushrooms sourced from China and found three species of mushroom previously unknown to science.
ZpW04 TIL the World's Oldest Company, Kongō Gumi, Operated Continuously for 1,400+ Years, Building Temples Since 578 AD in Japan.
pD8e TIL that according to legend, everyone in America used to think tomatoes were poisonous, due to them being a member of the nightshade family. In 1820, New Jersey resident Robert Gibbon Johnson ate tomatoes in front of a large crowd to prove they were edible.
OYl4 TIL 80% of registered cars in Albania are Mercedes