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TIL McDonald's purchases over 2 billion eggs per year which equates to 4 percent of eggs produced in the United States.

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yVoke TIL of Sardinian bitter honey, obtained in October - December from flowers of the strawberry tree (a Mediterranean tree named corbezzolo in Italian). It is used in traditional desserts or paired with cheese, and it's often added to coffee to enhance the bitter aromas
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Z8OLQ TIL that H G Wells’ War of the Worlds was inspired by how the immeasurably technologically superior English massacred the natives of Tasmania, Australia in taking that land.
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