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TIL that Fordite, also known as Motor City agate, is a lapidarist term for polished pieces of finely-layered paint masses from automobile factories

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o1Y TIL That an illiterate clown was elected to Brazilian congress in 2010.
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nykP TIL John Lennon originally wrote “Come Together” as a campaign song for Timothy Leary, who was running for governor of California at the time. When the song didn’t work out, Lennon took it to the Beatles. It was the last song all four Beatles cut together.
eeGn TIL that the industrial production of cream cheese is extremely difficult and involves changing polarity at the molecular level. Kraft controls 70% of the market and has kept the recipe secret for 80 years, which is currently held in a vault in New York
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