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TIL Butter is a Dairy product

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kLke TIL There is An Annual Wife-Carrying Contest in Finland called Eukankanto, Where The Reward is The Wife’s Weight in Beer
b9JPE TIL: England has more tornadoes per square mile than any other country in the world
e5jD TIL David Schwimmer was offered the role of J in Men in Black, but turned it down to star in a Gwyneth Paltrow film, saying “This is an opportunity to grow rather than go for the quick cash.” That movie was panned by critics and audiences.
WBW9 TIL that Melvil Dewey, creator of the Dewey Classification System, had “a persistent inability to control himself around women”. At Columbia “it was rumored that he asked for their bust sizes with their applications”; not true, but he did ask for photographs because “you cannot polish a pumpkin”.
gMVN7 TIL in pharaoh ant colonies, worker ants regulate the amount of worker ants and reproductive ants by eating larvae of the type that is in surplus