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TIL: According to information from the California-based Wine Institute, tiny Vatican City consumes more wine per capita than any other country.

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D1vav TIL In LOTR from Bag End to Mt Doom, Frodo travels approximately 1,800 miles in 185 days. That’s an eminently achievable average of 9.73 miles each day. In the Hobbit, Bilbo, on the other hand, travels a total of 950 miles in 172 days — an average of just 5.52 miles per day.
gr1G8 TIL of the Baltic Sea Anomaly which is an unexplained item found within the Baltic Sea by divers in 2011 and it remains a mystery.
1X4r TIL the US ICBM arsenal relies on 8-inch floppy disks
kJLxg TIL that much of the sound you hear on sports on TV is actually fake and that for example the sounds you hear in horse racing TV coverage is really sampled from a slowed-down buffalo charge.
PXoJ TIL that Lord Cornwallis, the general famous for leading the British Army during the American Revolution became Governor-General of India after the war and is buried there in a tomb overlooking the Ganges River.