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TIL the United States and Canada account for 98% of global cranberry production

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d9mZ TIL bottom shelf alcohol has a mark up of 1,200% at restaurants and bars.
KrWR TIL that from 2004 to 2011, American and American-trained Iraqi troops repeatedly encountered, and on at least six occasions were wounded by, chemical weapons remaining from years earlier in Saddam Hussein’s rule.
8aDN4 TIL Microsoft tried to buy Nintendo in the days where they started to enter the gaming market with the Xbox, but they got laughed out of the meeting room instead.
4keN5 TIL of The Ghost Army. They were a United States Army tactical deception unit during World War II. During their tenure, the Ghost Army carried out more than 20 deception campaigns, putting on a "traveling road show" using inflatable tanks, sound trucks, fake radio transmissions, scripts and pretense
j7jj TIL that due to poaching, many African elephants are now being born tuskless.