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TIL China didn’t have fortune cookies until introduced 1993 and sold as “genuine American fortune cookies”

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6kB7 TIL that Freddy Mercury and Paul McCartney used the same piano to record the songs “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “Hey Jude”.
Almo TIL that in a footnote buried in the Starr Report Monica Lewinsky testified to tossing Bill’s salad (Note 28)
v1mQR TIL Neil Young is married to Daryl Hannah
bNYQ TIL China hacked into the US military network using infected PDF files and Internet Explorer vulnerabilities to steal information about the military drone fleet