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TIL that Hawaii is not covered by Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty. This is because Article 6 stipulates that only the territories of member states located in North America, Europe, Turkey, and the Atlantic North are covered, while Hawaii is located in the Pacific.

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5wK8 TIL that Valve never expected “the cake is a lie” joke to become as popular as it did. They expected a metal hoop that roles past the player during the ending cutscene named “Hoopy the Hoop” would become the most well known joke in Portal. Hoopy even reappears in Portal 2.
DQo9r TIL the first quintuplets known to have survived infancy are the Dionne quintuplets born in 1934.
XEVLr TIL Most people with Chocolate allergies are actually allergic to the roaches present in them and not the chocolate itself . FDA deems up to 60 Insect Parts in 100 gm of Chocolates as safe for consumption as anything less than that would require more expensive processing and pesticide use.
O4gY TIL that the car brand Cadillac was named after French explorer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac who founded Detroit.
d8VB TIL: If you adjust the price of gasoline in 1918 with 2012 inflation, it would be $3.75/gallon.