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TIL Cheese is the most stolen food item in the world.

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WkrKB TIL that to establish jurisdiction in the Pan Am Flight 103 Bombing (Lockerbie), Camp Zeist, a former United States Air Force base in the Netherlands, was, in 2000, temporarily declared sovereign territory (Exclave) of the United Kingdom, in order to allow the trial to take place.
0wWk5 TIL of the TomTato, a commercially available graft of potato and tomato, which will grow potatos below ground and tomatos above ground.
4XXvo Birds, whales, butterflies, and many other animals have an instinctive sense of which way points North. Even dogs tend to poop in line with the planet's magnetic poles. If they can sense magnetic fields, can we?
Wkd9 TIL that the term sniper originated in the 1770s and was dubbed to hunters that were skilled enough to kill the elusive snipe, a small shorebird
5Y04p TIL Russia has 11 time zones