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TIL One Mac burger can have meat from 1000 different cows. The ground beef used to make burgers, both in fast food places and grocery stores, is made of a collection of muscle tissues.

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RoBl TIL that, in California, 4th grade students are expected to “Understand the environment of Internet anonymity and that not everyone on the Internet is truthful and reliable.” (3.1c)
D1kNj TIL today (August 24) is International Strange Music Day, started by composer Patrick Grant, who believes “...it is always good to listen and play music that we are unfamiliar with. It keeps our ears and outlook fresh.”
0wb15 TIL That Tanis - The "Lost City" was made famous by the Indiana Jones movie Raiders of the Lost Ark, is a real city and located in the Nile Delta northeast of Cairo, was capital of the 21st and 22nd dynasties, during the reign of the Tanite kings in Egypt's Third Intermediate period.
R5BZ8 TIL that the 1904 Olympics were originally awarded to Chicago. But St. Louis, which was hosting the World’s Fair that year, threatened to undermine the Olympics with an even bigger sports competition. Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics, then moved the games to St. Louis.
N7O8J TIL despite likely occurring multiple times a day across all oceans, the definitive causes behind rogue waves largely remain a mystery