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TIL The United States Department of Agriculture says the official definition of a sandwich is: “at least 35% cooked meat and no more than 50 percent bread”.

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EZ1p TIL A Gurkha Soldier of the Indian Army single handedly fought off 40 armed bandits with his knife killing 3 and injuring 8 to save a girl from getting raped during a train robbery in India
VMoRZ TIL 2.1 million people in the United States still use AOL dial-up to connect to the Internet a 2015 report found
LQwQ TIL that in Korea, there are cat cafes where you can go to drink coffee and hang out with cats for hours.
xZQ5 TIL Florida Man Carl Tanzler, an X-ray tech, fell in love with a patient and exhumed her body when she died to sleep with her corpse for 7 years. Charges were dropped because the statue of limitations expired by the time anyone found out.
R7En8 TIL that in 2013 the United States bombed the island of Guam with 2,000 dead mice stuffed with painkillers to kill the Brown Tree Snake which is an invasive species on the island. The snake got there by accident in the 1950s on a shipping vessel.