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TIL Cannabis is the largest cash crop in the U.S., exceeding corn and wheat combined

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xVvY0 TIL ginger beer is brewed (fermented), but ginger ale is just carbonated water that's been flavored with ginger.
GRy1 TIL in 1968 a US Army Batallion raped, maimed, and killed over 350 unarmed Vietnamese civilians, mostly women and children. Of the 26 soldiers charged, only one was convicted and only served 3.5 years in house arrest.
JYeY4 TIL before synthetic plastics were invented, a substance called Hemacite was widely used to make everything from roller skate wheels to doorknobs. Its ingredients are blood and sawdust.
6EPLZ TIL the town of Valmeyer, Illinois was so prone to flooding, that after a flood in 1993 the community decided to move the whole town two miles away onto a bluff to prevent further flooding.
gMQL7 TIL that Bless the Harts is the first Fox animated series since Bob’s Burgers to get another season and be created by a female; as a fan I didn’t even know this