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TIL Easy Cheese cans contain a propellant piston and plastic barrier that allows the cheese to come out as a thick string rather than a mist of fluorescent dairy. This also allows Easy Cheese to be dispensed upside down, sideways, and right side up, and the reason it doesn't need to be refrigerated

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v1nmR TIL In 1974, the North Korean government ordered 1000 Volvo 144 cars as well as other manufacturing equipment from Sweden but never actually payed for any of it. They currently owe about $320000000 in debt to Sweden.
NMLM TIL that a premature baby, after it had been declared dead, was brought back to life after the mother cuddled with him for two hours.
1awV7 TIL of an illegal program, called ‘Project Mkultra’ , conducted by the CIA on American and Canadian human subjects, with the goal of developing drugs and procedures to force confessions through mind control, interrogation, and torture.
LkvV9 TIL - only three women have appeared on UK Bank Notes (excluding the Queen) - Florence Nightingale £10.00 (1975), Elizabeth Fry £5.00 (2002) & Jane Austen £10.00 (2017). Twleve men have appeared by contrast.
e0D9E TIL of the Knights of Malta, a sovereign entity (part of the U.N. General Assembly) with 13,500 knights, 40,000 doctors and a further 80,000 volunteers. They have only 2 official citizens, but they still issue passports, coins and postage stamps despite having no physical land or territory