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TIL The United States has a 1.4 billion pound stockpile of cheese stored in caves in Missouri.

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5bwD TIL in 2011, PETA mocked a 21 year old man who was attacked by a shark while he was spearfishing, calling the attack ‘payback.’
ADVEB TIL about the 1943 Quebec Agreement, where the United States and the United Kingdom agreed in secret not to use nuclear weapons without each others consent. When asked, the U.K. provided its consent to use nuclear weapons on Japan on July 4, 1945.
ywAw TIL of Shirley Babashoff, American Olympic swimmer who acquired the nickname ‘Surly Shirley’ for her constant accusations that E German athletes were doping. Turns out she was right.
QJ1xp TIL The smelliest substance on earth, Tioacetone (CH3)2CS, smells so bad that it can effect areas up to a half-mile in radius. "When it was accidentally made it was followed by cases of vomiting, nausea and unconsciousness in a radius of 0.75 kilometres (0.47 mi) around the laboratory"
16DxO TIL that the Makapansgat pebble, a small rock estimated to be around 3,000,000 years old, may represent the earliest evidence of symbolic thinking in the early hominid species. It is believed that an early hominid carried the pebble into a cave because its natural shape resembles a face.