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TIL Argentina is one of the whitest counties in the world with a white population of 97%.

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69PBZ TIL The longest reverb in the world occurs in the bombproof Inchintown fuel tank built in the late 1930s/early 1940s in Invergordon, Ross-shire, Scotland. It lasts for approximately 112 seconds.
BdKW TIL: Printed dates on food are not required by the FDA and are not intended to mean food safety, only quality. An avg family of 4 throws out 1,344 lbs of perfectly good food each year bc of the misconception of the meaning of these dates
nWEjW TIL of the 1972 Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor air show disaster.
7rNPL TIL The only surviving son of the first Prime Minister of Canada, Sir John A. Macdonald, was also a politician and briefly the eighth Premier of Manitoba. His last home in downtown Winnipeg, called Dalnavert, is now a museum
5wkp TIL that water in Lake Erie replaces itself in 2.6 years while the water in Lake Superior takes 191 years to do the same.