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TIL Packages of bacon include a window on the back to see the fat courtesy of the USDA

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KW79 TIL that New York City spent nearly $1 million on typewriters in 2009, mostly for the NYPD, which still used them to fill out property and evidence vouchers, which were printed on carbon-paper forms
RV49 TIL flying has become so safe that you could fly every day for an average of 123,000 years before being in a fatal crash.
VMN0 TIL that a cashew is a seed that grows on the outside of a fruit and are toxic until shelled and roasted.
Wkl4X TIL Neptune is the windiest planet in our solar system with wind speeds of up to 1,500 MPH, Uranus produces wind speeds of 560 MPH putting it in second place.
KXoJ TIL the sun puts out more power in 1 second than mankind have ever used within human existance.