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TIL that Aladdin was actually Chinese

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ElPV TIL that Coors Brewing Company was the first American brewery to embrace American-grown hops, but the first hop variety they chose was too strong for their beer.
Bd0r TIL that Ronald Reagan used to give acorns he collected from Camp David to the squirrels outside the Oval Office. On his last day in office, mindful of new President Bush’s dog, he left the oval office for the last time, gave the squirrels acorns and set down a note that read “beware of the dog”
jN4Ep TIL Korolev crater on Mars is 50 miles wide, contains 530 cubic miles of water ice (as much as the Great Bear Lake in northern Canada), and in the centre of the crater the ice is more than a mile thick
8ndZ TIL that the “coastline paradox” makes measuring around bodies of water and coastlines mathematically impossible.
E1dX TIL that, in one four month period in 1940, the German Army was fed more than 35 million tablets of meth.