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TIL enough cheese was produced in 2011 to give each person on Earth 3 kg of cheese.

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ne1Dr TIL that almost 1 of every 4 beds sold in the late Eighties was a Waterbed. Then the industry dried up in the Nineties.
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x6bMD TIL that there is a Lombardy Crown called the 'Iron Crown' with what is supposed to be a nail of the True Cross as a central circlet.
xg75 TIL of Neerja Bhanot, a 22 year old Indian air hostess who helped hide 41 American passports aboard a hijacked plane. She died shielding three children from gunfire and was posthumously awarded bravery medals from India, Pakistan, and the United States.
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