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TIL Britons consume 97% of the worlds tinned baked beans

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VBkED TIL that the region of Bordeaux makes up 15% of all French wine production and 1.5% of the world's production. In most years, it has produced 900 million bottles of wine, and generates more than 2.5 billion Euros each year in revenue
XEork TIL of Kaiser, a Brazilian conman who had a 20-year football career without ever playing a single game. He hid his limited ability with fake injuries, connection to influential figures, and other ruses. One time he even started a fight with a fan to be sent off before a game to avoid playing
o04K TIL The reason Popeye eats spinach is because of an error in the calculation of its iron content by chemist Erich von Wolf in 1870. He misplaced a decimal point, recording iron as having 35mg of iron per 100g, instead of its true value of 3.5mg/100g. The former is equal to eating part of a paperclip
5Y0vr TIL in 1969, a 14-year-old boy in Toronto pretended he was a professional news photographer and was able to secure an interview with John Lennon, which sat around until it became part of a documentary in 2007
NboJ TIL that the Iranian government banned the mullet as a measure to “confront the cultural assault by the West”