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TIL Gouda accounts for 50 to 60 percent of the world’s cheese consumption.

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wkO8 TIL a prop at an amusement park that was thought to be a mannequin was discovered to be the mummified body of a train robber
j6nEp TIL Śmigus-dyngus or Dyngus Day is a celebration held on Easter Monday across Central Europe and in Polish Diaspora communities. Traditionally, boys throw water over girls on Easter Monday among other rituals. In some regions they strike them with pussy willow branches instead of sprinkling water.
R59W7 TIL there is a polar bear jail in northern Manitoba, Canada where polar bears are kept isolated until they can be relocated for the safety of the residents of the town of Churchill.
Brlmy TIL that the Queen of Englands reign has seen 12 American presidents in office and she’s met all of them, except for one.
KOdY9 TIL Abraham Lincoln, prior to becoming President, was an avid boater and traveled on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers where his boat often got stuck on sandbars. In 1849 Lincoln invented a method for Buoying Vessels Over Shoals, making him the first and only U.S. President to receive a patent.