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TIL Cocoa Puffs and Trix are just Kix with cocoa/fruit flavoring.

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P1kEL TIL the gourd was one of the world's first cultivated plants grown not primarily for food, but for use as containers. It is also used as a resonator on many stringed instruments, including the sitar
Rjw9 TIL that all attempts to create a national identity card (a federal agency-issued mandatory form of identification) have been strongly opposed by both conservative and liberal politicians, who regard it as the mark of a totalitarian society.
45oX TIL the ancient Babylonians worked out that there are solar eclipses that occur 18 years, 11 days, and 8 hours apart. This period, 223 lunar cycles, is called the Saros cycle. The 1999 eclipse and this year’s eclipse are Saros cycle solar eclipses.
WkokB TIL that Coca-Cola never patented their "secret formula" because otherwise they would be required to disclose it to the public.
EKbp TIL The United States tried to buy Greenland for $100,000,000, but Denmark refused to sell.