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TIL I learned that a group of people from Iran actually tried to break the record for the biggest sandwich, but they failed due to eating the sandwich before the GWR team was able to measure it.

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xVAM0 TIL that one acre of hemp can produce as much paper (including toilet paper!) as four acres of trees.
XElEj TIL Tom Clancy wrote his 1st book 'The Hunt for Red October' in 1982 and hoped to sell 5,000 copies but ended up selling 45,000 copies. The book received praised from Ronald Reagan leading to a further 300,000 hardcover & 2 million paperback copies sold.
60xZ TIL Newborns recognize their native language. In an experiment on 4 day olds, researchers presented French babies with recordings of a bilingual speaker telling the same story once in French, and once in Russian. The babies,who had “overheard” French in the womb, showed a preference for French
4kA9o TIL that the Caesar salad was invented in Tijuana, Mexico, by Caesar Cardini, an Italian-American chef, in the 1920s.
9YVR6 TIL Al Capone's oldest brother, upon his fleeing New York after a fight in which he defended his younger brother Al, changed his name, served in WWI and later became a Prohibition officer who only learned of his brother's exploits by reading the newspaper.