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TIL that apple pie is often considered the national dessert of the United States, but not from America

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PYOyJ TIL the author of the first Macintosh compression program (StuffIt, 1987) wrote it while a student in US high school, and royalty checks paid for his MIT tuition
kOXe7 TIL that after Lorena Bobbit cut her husband's penis off, he went to star in a porn film directed by Ron Jeremy: 'featuring a post-surgery John Wayne Bobbit as Frankenpenis, a castrated man who had a "super penis" sewed onto him in an experiment'.
VBVJp TIL that there is a disease that is called “Maple Syrup Urine Disease”
LkKAv TIL Cleopatra was one of the wealthiest women of all time. Her net worth today would be around $95.8 billion USD
gr0e8 TIL in the men's outdoor pole vault, the top 8 all-time performances are all by Armand Duplantis, and the top 24 performances are shared by Duplantis and Sergey Bubka—seventeen of those by Duplantis and seven by Bubka.