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TIL that the USDA cold storage is a public report, and the US currently has almost a billion pounds of frozen french fries

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Z5yB TIL countefeit versions of perscription drugs have been found in legitimate supply chains of at least 44 countries. As of 2010, the counterfeit medicine industry was worth up to $200 billion per year, and is still rapidly growing.
w958 TIL sporting goods company Wilson was started in 1913 as a way to use animal by-products from New York slaughterhouses. Its first products were strings for tennis rackets and violins
D1vQj TIL that when the first American space station, Skylab, crashed to Earth, it landed in Australia. In response, the Australian government issued the US a $400 fine for littering which the US left unpaid for years until a radio DJ in California caught wind of it and raised the money to pay the fine
yQy7p TIL after Neil deGrasse Tyson tried to persuade rapper BoB that the Earth isn't flat, the rapper released a diss song against him called "Flatline" in which he expands his views on the Earth being flat.In response, Tyson and his rapper nephew responded with their own diss track titled "Flat to Fact"
7r96r TIL that during the first week of move-in into the White House, the American president is asked to plan his or her funeral should his or her death occur in office.