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TIL that china is consuming more pork than ever before

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ne0lb TIL about Operation Mincemeat, a British deception plot to fool the Nazis into thinking that the Allies were going to invade Greece instead of Italy by planting deceptive information on a corpse on the Spanish coast with the hopes that Spain would pass it on to German Intelligence.
Ex5d TIL in 1985 there were 13 billionaires in the US. Today there are over a thousand.
gJ6y TIL on May 23rd, 1967 the U.S. air force was set to initiate a nuclear strike against Russia after a sudden disruption of their radar detection systems. They were ordered to stand down after the then recently created Solar Forecasting Center determined that solar flares had caused the disruption
gMbZy TIL Seltzer water was invented in 1740 by William Brownrigg but never published. Joseph Priestley invented it independently and on accident in 1767 at a brewery in Leeds, England.
dBpj TIL the hoverboard was invented for real in April 2016. Powered by six compact jet engines totaling 1000 HP (equivalent to four automobile engines), and stabilized with Segway-like algorithmic balancing, it has a flight time of 10 minutes using a camelbak filled with jet fuel.