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TIL Cinco de Mayo is bigger in the US than it is in Mexico, mostly because beer manufacturers saw it as a marketing opportunity in the 1980’s

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9X4D TIL if you are missing a Lego brick or its broken.. Lego will send it to you no questions asked for FREE
9rPG TIL that more academic papers have been written about Buffy the Vampire Slayer than any other popular culture phenomenon
7rad7 TIL studies of Vitamin D supplements show they offer a significant chance of preventing cold & flu, while Vitamin C actually has little to no benefit.
vPPe7 TIL that Gravitational Wave detectors are so precise that they could detect a human hair's width worth change in length between the distance of Sun and Proxima Centauri, which is about 4.24 light-years!
pWJG TIL Hitler’s plan for a rebuilt Berlin included the “People’s Dome”, a hall so big that if it were occupied at capacity, “the condensed breath of the [180,000] people would have accumulated in the dome and caused a rainfall”