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TIL 80% of the world's vanilla is grown on a single island

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gMAP9 TIL that the Southern Baptist Church formed in 1844 when Baptists living in the south opposed the efforts of Baptists living in the north to prevent missionaries from owning slaves. So they formed the Southern Baptist church, a church that explicitly allowed slavery.
D11QD TIL that in 2011, a spicy curry eating contest in Edinburgh ended with two people having to be transported to the hospital
Oo4QX TIL - During World War II, at the urging of the US government, actress Veronica Lake changed her signature hairstyle because women working in war time machine shops were often injured when their long hair became tangled in machinery.
OZwg TIL that Wisconsin is the only state requiring external investigations of police-involved deaths.