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TIL that The United States Department of Agriculture says a sandwich must contain at least 35 percent cooked meat and no more than 50 percent bread

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b9Km9 TIL in 2010 a group of friends fabricated an absurd case to bring on Jude Judy in order to get a free trip to LA and $1,500
e05aD TIL that that the House of Repreprentatives is not really an house but only an illusion here it says it is not a house only a place to people can vote for laws. all the time you thought it was a house idiot
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x0BB TIL when glass breaks, the cracks spread at speeds up to 3,000 miles per hour.
ovJK TIL that the atomic clocks aboard GPS satellites are programmed to compensate for time dilation due to General Relativity. Otherwise, after just one day, GPS devices would show coordinates that would be off by around 10Km!