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TIL Next to the US army, Disney world is the largest buyer and importer of explosives in the USA.

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xVEoB TIL in 2005, a woman falsely claimed she found a finger in her food at Wendy's. The fast food chain suffered an estimated US$21 million in lost business. She later revealed, she cooked the finger at her home and then drove it to the Wendy's restaurant in San Jose, where she dropped it into the food.
BgVrb TIL that the French stole the croissant from the Austrians.
loAer TIL that Soviet artillery launched an attack in 1942 to silence German guns specifically so that Shostakovich's 7th Symphony could premiere in Leningrad, even though the city was under siege and the musicians were starving to death, with three dying during rehearsals
R7bj9 TIL, the quietest room in the world measures at -9 dB, and will drive you mad. One reporter lasted up to 45 minutes, and most people leave after half that time, tortured by the eerie sounds of their own body.
VBVwm TIL Emmy-winning actors Bonnie Bartlett Daniels and William Daniels, married for 72 years, initially had an open marriage.