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TIL than in 2019 a cheese from the United States won Best Cheese in the World from the World Cheese Awards.

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WkwnL TIL The US government imposed a livestock reduction on the Navajo in the 1930s. They bulldozed trenches,herded sheep and goats into them, coated them in flammable liquid, and burned them alive. They were promised land expansion that never materialized. From the memoir of Chester Nez, Code Talker.
a8Weo TIl that many Boeing 747s still receive software updates via 3.5-inch floppy discs
697aJ TIL Lincoln made no mention of Pilgrims, Plymouth or Natives when he codified Thanksgiving as a national holiday.
0wRER TIL that in 2004, police discovered a fully equipped movie theatre (with seats, a large movie screen, projection equipment, and a bar) in one of the caverns of the Catacombs of Paris, and the source of this theatre remains unknown.
4XmEJ TIL of Eric Erickson, a Swedish businessman who pretended to be devoted to the Nazis, but was really a spy for the American military. He made more than 30 trips to Germany between 1939-1945. He mapped out oil refineries that were later bombed. His family had disowned him for “supporting” Hitler.