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TIL that around 4% of all the cheese made in a year ends up being stolen

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Z85Wv TIL the cap of the Washington Monument contains 100 ounces of pure aluminum. Aluminum was one of the rarest and most valuable metals in the world – more valuable than silver – when the building was constructed in the 1850s.
69va7 TIL I learned that bananas are considered berries while strawberries are not
xeng TIL The vibrator was the fifth domestic product to be electrified and became so a decade before the vacuum and Iron
Ooy16 TIL a study of Holocaust survivors found that they passed their trauma on to their children. Their children were found to have an increased likelihood of stress disorders when compared to Jewish families who were living outside of Europe during WWII.
jZKE TIL the shortest commercial flight is between two islands in Scotland and can take as little as 47 seconds.