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TIL that scientists have successfully created cheese using human bacteria collected from toes and belly buttons.

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gRQ8 TIL that the US military spent over $20 billion a year on air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan.
1gW TIL that Lofoten in Norway is north of the Arctic Circle. Yet because of the largest positive temperature anomaly in the world relative to latitude it is teeming with life and has the largest deep water coral reef in the word.
0dwav TIL David Bowie rejected Coldplay's collaboration request on one song in which they had, according to the band themselves, a "David Bowie-type character" by replying: "It's not a very good song, is it?"
D1VPr TIL that you need to climb 2 hours on a 800 meters (0.5 miles) steel ladder to get to the clifftop village of Atule'er in Southern China. Recently 72 families were relocated to a town under the cliff, but 30 households intend to stay in their clifftop homes, partly due to a newfound tourist economy.
KOR6R TIL that fireflies are actually beatles.