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TIL that Italy sells more Italian olive oil than it can produce

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W76lo TIL At the surrender of the Army of North Virginia General Lee wore a brand new officer uniform and carried a ceremonial sword. In contrast the victorious General Grant carried no sword and wore the uniform of a private with straps of a lieutenant-general.
OGYMX TIL about MiniScribe, a hard drive manufacturing company from the '80s who tried to cover up an inventory shortage by packing 26,000 bricks into hard drive boxes and shipping them to their distributor.
7rKBL TIL Twenty One Pilots is the only act in history to have two entire albums worth of songs certified Gold or Platinum. No other artist has ever achieved this.
d8RQQ TIL that for chicken to qualify as “Free Range” chicken farms only need to let them outside for a minimum of 5 minutes
6ERJ7 TIL that the most common cause of fatal injury to retail workers is violence from other people.