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TIL Enamel is made of powdered glass

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9dep TIL a Walmart employee making $9.05/hour returned an envelope with $20,000 that he had found in the parking lot
MeQPB TIL In the "The Last of the Meheecans" episode of South Park, the couple that takes in Butters as an immigrant worker name him "Mantequilla", which means butter in Spanish.
mx0aP TIL that if the Royal Standard flag is raised above the Buckingham Palace, it means the Queen is home. However, if the Union Jack is raised instead, it means the Queen is somewhere else.
R0Dj TIL the US has been using the same poverty guideline since 1965. It assumes we spend 1/3 of our income on food, & sets the federal poverty level at 3x the estimated cost of a family’s food. However, we now spend only ~1/6 of our income on food, while other necessities have become far more expensive
9YxZ7 TIL there's a batch of beef stew in Bangkok thats been simply "topped up" for 40 years. Any bowl you order could have bits decades old