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TIL the Moon drifts away from Earth at the same speed fingernails grow.

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VB5R4 TIL Washington State leads apple production in the United States, accounting for over half of the nation’s domestically grown apples.
a8w6Z TIL Nancy Cartwright (voice of Bart Simpson) has to date given $17,500,000 to Scientology
Knja TIL that a Texas woman tried to kill a snake by dousing it in gasoline and setting it on fire… in a final act of defiance it slithered to her house and caught it on fire
MeNkK TIL that landlocked country of Mongolia maintains a Navy which consists of 1 tugboat and 7 sailors, 6 of whom do not know how to swim.The boat is placed in Mongolia's largest lake & after privatization of the Navy by the government it now supplements its income by hauling freight and tourists around
4Xb45 TIL Coca-Cola had to pull its water drink from the U.K., because the water turned out to be contaminated water from near Peckham, England. The exact storyline of a joke in the English sitcom ‘Only Fools And Horses’ episode 12 years earlier