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TIL The U.S. ranks 3rd in liking the United States.

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xVl91 TIL of the Peanut Butter Hearings of 1959, which took place after the FDA revealed that leading peanut butter products only contained 75% peanuts to cut costs. This enraged the public, who began referring to these products as “peanut-flavored face cream” and standard of at least 90% peanuts was set.
LjeV TIL in Connecticut in 1923, you could be fined or imprisoned for observing Daylight Saving Time
jjMv TIL the best paid sportsman of all-time was the Roman charioteer Gaius Appuleius Diocles. Before retiring in 146 AD, Diocles had won 1,462 races, resulting in winning over 35,863,120 sesterces in prize-money. By today’s standards, that last figure would cash out to about $15 billion.
K8Q9 TIL that Morgan Freeman is the only American to ever par the longest and highest par three golf hole in the world.
P1a4G TIL there is an egg-shaped dwarf planet called Haumea in our Solar System - its shape its due to incredibly fast rotation and it even has two moons.