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TIL that many American poultry companies only make a profit by exporting chicken feet to China. The parts of the bird Americans eat barely cover costs.

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G65N TIL that Japan sells its rare Kobe beef to just three restaurants in the United States so that “Kobe steak” that you just ate is probably fake
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Z8WpB TIL In Italy there is a supervolcano called Campi Flegrei. If it explode the entire Campania will be erased,the world temperature will be lower of several degrees,the ashes coming from the volcano will block the sunrays in the whole world leading to the death of many plants and animals
vPYBD TIL that in the 1970 film Waterloo, to recreate the battle sequences, production hired 17,000 members of the Soviet Army and trained them in 1815 battle formations.
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