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TIL Kraft Singles cannot legally be referred to as ‘Cheese’.

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QlPa TIL in 2002 the US military conducted an elaborate $250mil war game against a retired USMC Lt Gen who employed unconventional tactics like motorcycle messengers and suicide bombers, inflicting “the worst naval disaster since Pearl Harbor” and resulted in the exercise being restarted with a handicap.
8eA8V TIL George Michael have 10 no.1 hits songs on Billboard Hot 100 including 2 from Wham! (former band) and he wrote (except Careless Whisper with Andrew Ridgely) and produced them all by himself.
x6ybo TIL that each of the five wealthiest men were to spend a million US dollars daily, they would take 476 years to exhaust their combined wealth
BZ8x TIL The average high school student has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient would in 1950s.
mdBR TIL in South Korea, earning an Olympic Medal means you avoid a mandatory two-year military service.