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TIL of the Guano Islands Act of 1856, authorizing US naval forces to annex islands for the purpose of collecting bird poop

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4j7X TIL One company produces up to 80% of the communion wafers used in U.S. Catholic churches​. The company is a secular industrial bakery that churns out more than 25 million wafers every week.
Qx8a TIL that 43% of sexual acts are completed within two minutes.
l7EW7 TIL Captain Video and His Video Rangers (1949-55) was one of the first science fiction TV shows and had a run of 1537 episodes. Only about 20 of the episodes survive today as as the original recordings were dumped in the ocean off the coast of New York.
R7YK8 TIL In 1907 President Roosevelt sailed into Provincetown Massachusetts harbor, eight battleships in two squadrons formed a lane for the yacht to pass through. His mission was to lay the cornerstone of the Pilgrim Monument.
wLAN7 TIL that mountains have "roots" i.e. a part of the mountain that extends underground in order for the mountain to have isostatic equilibrium