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TIL that mozzarella is generally not sold packaged in a brine in North America

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7rkxL TIL: On average, cats spend 2/3 of every day sleeping. That means a nine-year-old cat has been awake for only three years of its life.
LQWJ0 TIL of Karel Soucek, who successfully went over Niagara Falls in a barrel and planned a museum about his stunt. To fund it he performed a stunt in which, inside a barrel, he would fall 180 feet from the roof of the Houston Astrodome into a water tank. The barrel hit the rim of the tank, killing him.
nBR9 TIL ancient Egypt was formed from the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt around 3000 BC, and the pharaohs wore a double-crown, with one half, the White Crown, representing Upper Egypt, and the other half, the Red Crown, representing Lower Egypt.
WDL8 TIL that there is a belief system called Christian Atheism, where one follows the teachings of Jesus, while not believing him to be the son of God.
loD7G TIL A 3″ telescope has a maximum theoretical magnification of 150x. A 6″ telescope can magnify up to 300x, and an 8″ telescope up to 400x. But the Earth’s atmosphere is a limiting factor