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TIL that about 50% of the earth’s heat is generated from radioactive decay from elements such as uranium and thorium

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g6gy TIL that during the depression when the flour companies learned that poor Americans were sewing flour bags together to make clothing they started packing their flour in pretty patterned packing material to encourage potential dress makers to buy their flour
6E9g8 TIL symbolically named Torch Tower building in Dubai have catches fire 2 times in 2 years
kOox7 TIL Sriracha is a Thai-style sauce, made by Vietnamese migrants in America using American jalapeno chillies.​The original ('sriraja panich') uses 'Prik Chee Fah' chillies
VQAm TIL That for every dollar the US owes another country, it is owed 89 cents in foreign debt
N7NWP TIL that of the ten costliest atlantic hurricanes, only one occurred before the year 2000, and half occurred within the past 10 years.