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TIL that all potatoes used to make fries from Five Guys are required to be grown north of the 42nd parallel.

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GADx1 TIL that in the Brazilian Amazon there’s a thousand year old stone observatory similar to Stonehenge
v19kr TIL Actress Geena Davis almost qualified for the USA Archery Team for the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics
9MQG TIL In 1906 An irish Olympic silver medalist Peter O Connor climbed a 20 foot flag pole and waved the irish flag when made to compete for Britain, All while irish and irish-American athletes fought off guards at the end of the pole.
BrpGx TIL Potato chip packets are made noisy to make you think the chips are crunchier. There is no reason in terms of product preservation for the noisy packets.
kOg9B TIL That Tesla sells their unused carbon tax credits to gas guzzling car producers reducing the net gains for the environment to zero.