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TIL that in 2012 cheese was the most shoplifted item from supermarkets.

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dDJer TIL Marcy Borders, a 28-year-old employee in the World Trade Center, survived the building’s collapse on September 11, 2001. Her picture, showed her completely covered in dust. The image became widely recognized, and Borders became known as "The Dust Lady." She passed away from cancer on 08/24/2015.
OG0ra TIL of the "Devil's Cigarette Lighter," a natural gas fire that burned for nearly 6 months in the Algerian desert. It rose between 450 ft (140m) and 800 ft (240m) high and burned over 550 million cubic feet of gas every day. It was witnessed by John Glenn while in orbital spaceflight.
grxEW TIL Borat's first movie was banned in Kazakhstan but when the second was released they made a tourism campaign around "Very Nice!"
oBv4A TIL in 2016 there was an anthrax outbreak in western Siberia. The source was found to be a thawed 75-year-old reindeer carcass containing the spores.
QNQ4E TIL that Canada supplied India its first reactor, the CIRUS, during the 1950s, exclusively for "peaceful purposes", but over the protestations of Canada, became the source of India's first nuclear warhead.