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TIL Sweden has virtually eradicated Salmonella

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MjoV TIL a partnership between US and Chinese space agencies is impossible - the 2011 spending bill made any scientific activity involving NASA and the Chinese illegal.
dry9 TIL the real crew on the Captain Phillips ship say that he is a fraud, he endangered them, the film is a lie, and they’ve sued for “willful, wanton and conscious disregard for their safety”.
x6lQ1 TIL The Jewish mafia was nicknamed the Kosher Nostra
16OPD TIL Denver International Airport (Colorado, USA) occupies 52.4 square miles (136 sq km), making DIA larger in land area (excluding water) than the US cities of Boston, Massachusetts and San Francisco, California.
pyle TIL, there is a small village in Japan that invented the practice of rice paddy art whereby 4 different strains of rice are planted in a pattern so that they form a picture once the rice matures.