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TIL Soy sauce contains 10 times the antioxidants of red wine.
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TIL that lilies are poisonous to cats
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TIL that a woman living in California in the 1940s housed thousands of spiders in her home to harvest and sell their silk to the US military for bomb sites during WW2. The government's couriers would arrive to pick up the silk with empty briefcases handcuffed to their wrists.
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TIL that Australia is wider than the moon (diameter)
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TIL that Tom Hanks and Mister Rogers are sixth cousins. In 2019, Tom Hanks played Fred Rogers in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. Days before the movie was released, Hanks found out that they both share the same great-great-great-great-great grandfather.
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TIL the iconic black & white stripes on the allied D-Day airplanes were a last minute idea to help the allied naval anti-aircraft gunners more easily identity friendly planes. This was done after frequent "friendly fire" incidents during the previous invasion of Sicily