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TIL that the US Supreme Court building has a basketball court on the top floor known as “The Highest Court in the Land”

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9wVvQ TIL Mimolette is a cheese who got invented during the France-Holland war after France banned Dutch cheese imports. Its nutty flavor comes from mite-made holes in its rind. US customs detained in 2013 imports, citing FDA concerns about it being filthy, putrid, or unfit for human consumption.
E1YdP TIL about Blue Babe, a 36,000 year old mummified steppe bison found in Alaska in 1979. After scientists painstakingly dug up the specimen and prepared it for display in the University of Alaska Museum, they decided to celebrate by taking a piece of meat from its neck, stewing it, and eating it.
78ZjL TIL that Queen Joanna of Naples and Sicily headed directly into Avignon as it was being ravaged by the Black Plague, in an effort to meet the Pope and clear her name in the suspicous death of her husband
WkxlX TIL We've contaminated the ocean to the point there's plastic in the sea salt we use on our food...
PY7ag TIL about Don Bradman, a cricket player whose batting average was 99.94. A usual batting average in cricket is between 20 and 60.