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TIL that the US government stores 1.4 billion pounds of cheese in underground caves in Missouri

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EgMQd TIL that Dame Judi Dench has photographic memory and can recite entire Shakespeare plays from memory.
b6YPQ TIL that the practice of Feng Shui is so prevalent in Hong Kong that when the Bank Of China was built to not follow the practice, the HSBC building nearby built maintenance cranes with the shape of cannons to combat its negative energy.
oBp9K TIL some humans can see some frequencies of ultraviolet light, with it appearing as a whitish-blue or violet. This is because they have no lens in their eye, due to surgical removal.
v1G8j TIL that Christian Bale, who has a British accent, did all of his promotional interviews for Batman Begins in an American accent because he felt Batman was "such an American character" and he did not want audiences asking "What the hell is going on? Why do we have an English Batman?"
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