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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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5Nxk TIL that “A Scanner Darkly” was the first novel Philip K Dick wrote without the help of amphetamines.
gjr8 TIL that Ozzy Osbourne’s entire genome was once analyzed by scientists to determine how his body survived decades of drug abuse.
d6oE TIL that in 1972 some of Aircraft Carrier USS Ranger’s crew carried out two-dozen acts of sabotage to prevent the ship from returning to Vietnam
b64wa TIL that Roman Polanski was originally going to plead guilty to charges in return for no jail. However, after hearing the judge was planning to go back on his word and jail him, Polanski fled the United States never to return.
nMPP TIL the first porn movie is from Argentina. It was produced in Argentina in 1907, and includes possibly the first use of extreme close-ups of genitalia.