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TIL that Ben & Jerry’s created the first chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream

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ADlJ4 TIL the position of a Venetian gondolier is extremely exclusive and difficult to attain. Only 425 licenses are granted each year and it requires years of apprenticeship and passing a major exam.
D1a4v TIL lightning can heat the surrounding air to as hot as 50,000 °F, three time hotter than the surface of the sun. As the super heated air cools, it produces a particular vacuum. The rapid contraction and expansion of this air is what causes thunder.
rR0kM TIL the Soviet Union made a Space Shuttle remarkable like the US’s counterpart
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