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TIL Canadians eat more Mac and Cheese than any other nationality

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VGYQ TIL when Mel Brooks hired Orson Welles to narrate History of the World pt.1, he budgeted $5,000 a day for 5 days. Welles completed all the narration perfectly by noon on the first day, making $25,000 for 3 hours work. He said he planned to spend the money on Cuban cigars and caviar.
DNDV TIL there is a cemetery for German WWII soldiers maintained in Normandy, France
b9dMj TIL the world's most consumed liquor is Baijiu. 10.8 billion liters were sold in 2018, more than all whisky, gin, tequila, rum, and vodka combined. It is drunk mostly in China.
78BbL TIL California’s Salton Sea was accidentally created in 1905 when a canal breach flooded a desert sink 86m below sea level.
ylnw TIL That the Jaguar is in fact native to North American and there is still a population of these cats living in southern Arizona and New Mexico