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M5jA TIL White People in the US purchase more than twice the cheese per capita than Black or Asian people.
NXY8E TIL The Potlatch Ceremony, where Native leaders gave away or destroyed valuables during a great feast, was banned from 1885 to 1951 in Canada yet persisted in secret during that time
neVeP TIL that during the thunderous applause following his famous 'We shall fight on the beaches' speech to the to the House of Commons in 1940, Winston Churchill whispered to a colleague, "And we’ll fight them with the butt ends of broken beer bottles because that's bloody well all we've got!".
OoA8L TIL - Elephants are one of the few species on Earth with ‘Death Rituals’, whereby the herd will gather around the dead, cover the body and mourn the death. They have also been known to revisit the bones of the dead, sometimes years after the death.
9wVvQ TIL Mimolette is a cheese who got invented during the France-Holland war after France banned Dutch cheese imports. Its nutty flavor comes from mite-made holes in its rind. US customs detained in 2013 imports, citing FDA concerns about it being filthy, putrid, or unfit for human consumption.