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TIL sheep farming accounts for 80% of all agriculture in Wales.

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rRpGe TIL that in 1978, the Supreme Court ruled that credit card companies did not have to abide by state interest rate caps. It allowed them to relocate to states without rate caps and issue credit cards across the nation with whatever rate they wanted.
KOgmJ TIL that the largest single organism on the planet is not a blue whale - it is a "Humongous Fungus" called Armillaria ostoyae, located in Oregon, U.S. It is estimated it weighs 440 tons (the size of three blue whales) and is 2400 years old.
50L8 TIL: Between 255 and 320 “General Lee” cars were used and mostly destroyed during the filming of the Dukes of Hazard TV show.
X0pmQ TIL Repeated exposure to their partners sperm can reduce pregnancy complications in women
a8dlA TIL there are 28ft long parasitic nematodes that live off the placentas of sperm whales