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TIL McDonald’s purchases approximately 75% of all the sesame seed crop grown in Mexico

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KYo69 TIL that when Michelangelo finished to carve the Pietà, the marble sculpture now in Saint Peter's Basilica, he was only 24
R7r6 TIL in 1914, a 19yo British boy was court martialed for desertion. He was undefended and called no witnesses, as all of his comrades had been killed in action. He was hastily sentenced, and on September 8th became the first WWI soldier to be executed for desertion. He was finally pardoned in 2006.
LQARm TIL Tom Welling was 24 years old when he was cast as Clark Kent in Smallville. Clark is 14 years old in season one.
5Kbr TIL in the popular video game ‘deus ex’ released in the year 2000, it is missing the twin towers due to graphical limitations. The in-game explanation for this was that they were destroyed by a terrorist attack.
XlZP TIL Missouri law prohibits employers from requiring that their employees have identifying microchip implants.