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TIL: The US government owns 1.4 billion pounds of cheese storaged hundreds of feet below ground in converted limestone mines in Missouri.

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olvE TIL that a Hungarian man named László Polgár believed that any child could become a genius in any field as long as education starts before they turn 3 and they begin to specialise at 6. His youngest, Judit, became the strongest female chess player of all time and ranked within the world’s top ten.
VMLyQ TIL it is largely a myth that the Library of Alexandria was destroyed in a fire. Most of the collection had records elsewhere in the world. The Library of Alexandria was largely brought down by dwindling membership over many centuries. By the time it was destroyed, no books were housed there.
Qe8e TIL the first animal ejected from a supersonic aircraft was not a monkey or a dog, but a BEAR
bNE7 TIL that babies can tell the faces of lemurs and other primates apart, but lose this ability as they get older and specialize on human faces
0K7A TIL that Conan O'Brien was the victim of stalking and death threats and that the man who stalked and threatened him was an ordained Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Boston. The man signed his letters to O'Brien as “your priest stalker”.