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TIL that the entire US-Canada border is defined by a 20 ft. deforested area called "The Slash".

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X0Ge6 TIL That the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, is not connected to a sewer system and as such has trucks manually remove human excrement from it daily.
xVVEk TIL Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida covers 40 Square miles, the same size as San Francisco. In 1963, Disney paid prices as low as $180 per acre for the land, buying under psuedo corporations. When sellers heard it was Disney buying the land, prices escalated as high as $80,000 per acre.
l9a1 TIL Honey never spoils. A thousand-years-old jar of honey that got preserved can be eaten today.
omY7 TIL Baby carrots are shaped from irregulars and their invention reduced loss by as much as 70% in some crops
WM6N TIL George Lucas was in debt after building Skywalker Ranch and producing the bomb “Howard the Duck”, so he sold the Lucasfilm CGI division to Steve Jobs, which later became Pixar.