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TIL America exports disposable chopsticks to China.

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Lk1gv TIL Project Mogul was a US Airforce secret project to detect nuclear test acoustically with microphones mounted on high altitude balloons. When one such balloon crashed in Roswell, NM in 1947, they covered it up by saying it was a weather balloon.
xg1D TIL that the Vatican is the only country in the world where women can’t vote
7dWP TIL Norway maintains the largest sovereign wealth fund totaling $882 Billion in assets
Yppd7 TIL in 2010,a man bought a photo of Billy The Kid from a junk shop for $2,which could be potentially be sold for 5 million dollars.
p8BMO TIL in the middle ages priests treated rabies by sticking religious ornaments, heated until red-hot, onto bite wounds. This actually worked because they were unknowingly cauterising and sterilising the wound.