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TIL two-thirds of the apple juice consumed in the US comes from China

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LklZp TIL that in 1958 the Soviets reached one of the most remote places in Antarctica where they built a cabin. When they left they placed a bust of Lenin on top of the chimney facing in the direction of Moscow, which today is now the only thing standing above the snow
rR8jo TIL out of the 1000 oldest companies in the world, more than half of them come from Japan.
Wk6XL Self-declared Flat Earth researcher and DIY steam rocket enthusiast “Mad” Mike Hughes has finally managed to prove the haters wrong about his ability to blast himself some 1,875 feet into the sky without being crushed or scalded to death, the Associated Press reported on Sunday.
R74W4 TIL a six-year-old named Elaine Esposito went to the hospital for a routine appendectomy. She went under general anesthetic and never came out. Dubbed "The Sleeping Beauty" Esposito stayed in a coma for 37 years and 111 days before succumbing in 1978. The longest-ever coma.
vPKe4 TIL If we lost all the dead space inside our atoms, the entire human race would fit into the volume of a sugar cube.