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TIL: Nearly 26,000 gallons of milk is served each year in just twelve days at the MN State Fair “All You Can Drink Milk Stand”

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DQmj TIL that there is an “Awesome Foundation” that awards $1000 grants every month for “crazy brilliant” ideas and wants to “advance awesomeness in the universe.”
9wMMX TIL Kiwifruit originated from China in 1904. It is not native to New Zealand.
16WJX TIL people older than 75 years who have cognitive abilities as good as someone in their 20s and 30s are called superagers. A lot of their superaging comes from life-long exercise, connection with nature, and life-long mental activities. Robert De Niro, Rusin Bond, and Dadi Bhagwani have superaged.
YoPx TIL All domesticated hamsters are descendents from a single brother sister pair that was found in Aleppo. They were bred in Jerusalem by a guy named Israel.
obYW TIL Demetri Martin wrote a 224 word palindrome (Reads same back as forth, letter for letter) poem about alcoholism.