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

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R7oWQ TIL Alex Trebek sleeps naked. In 2011, a burglar broke into his hotel room where Trebek and his wife were sleeping. Alex put on a pair of underwear and chased the burglar before he tore his Achilles tendon during the chase.
p8PMb TIL that although the AC-130 close air support gunship has been flying combat missions since the Vietnam War, only 47 of them have been built.
mDbP TIL the President of the United States is granted access to classified information only on a “need-to-know” basis
110d TIL Jimmy the Greek Snyder bet $10,000 at 17–1 odds on Harry Truman to defeat Thomas Dewey in the 1948 election, because Dewey had a mustache and “American women didn’t trust men with a mustache”. In today’s dollars, that bet netted him over $1.7 Million.
AdRo TIL the day after September 11th, the British Field Band played the American National Anthem out of respect during the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace