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TIL the Yakima Valley produces 77% of all hops grown in the United States.

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OGl9X TIL that prior to the Nazi era, more than 100,000 Germans had learned Esperanto and it was being taught in the elementary schools of 126 German cities.
DnQv TIL in 2001, journalist Sami al-Hajj was detained and held in Guantanamo Bay for 6 years, despite being completely innocent
5VrJP TIL the 1981 Nashville Sounds went 81-62 (.566) winning the Western Division of the Southern League (AA). Their star players were Don Mattingly and Willie McGee, who were both 1985 MLB MVP's.
1aeQV TIL that ever since James Bond’s very first appearance as a character (nearly 70 years ago in the 1953 novel Casino Royale), all the way through every single book and movie adaptation, there has been exactly one monarch of Britain: Queen Elizabeth II.
9YBwM TIL at the 2018 Berlin Marathon Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge set an official world record for running the marathon of 2:01:39. This is less time than it would take to watch Hamilton on Disney+ (2hr 40m).