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TIL 80 percent of the peanut butter sold in the U.S. is creamy; only 17 percent is crunchy.

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7An7 TIL Goldman Sachs horde 25% of the World’s Aluminium then manipulate the price by delaying delivery to companies by 16 months, increasing the price of it, making them a lot of money and potentially costing consumers $5 Billion over 3 years.
OGoj7 TIL that the Pope is the head of two separate and distinct sovereign entities. Vatican City, A Sovereign City State, and the Holy See, a sovereign juridical entity that acts as the Universal Catholic Central Government.
8ea4a TIL the 1972 pornographic film Deep Throat reportedly earned as much as $600M, which may have been inflated by gangsters in money laundering schemes
9nnQ TIL: France and Netherlands share a land border . It’s in the Caribbean on Saint Martin - the smallest inhabited island divided between two countries
ep4N4 TIL that the USS Bowfin is the only submarine ever to sink a bus with a torpedo.