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TIL 84% of Vegetarians & Vegans go back to eating meat.

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7rP9b TIL that the SR71 Blackbird (fastest plane ever) used to covertly spy on the Soviet Union during the cold war, was built from Titanium that the US anonymously bought from Russia.
4loa TIL 28 states in the U.S. have state beverages. Milk is the state beverage of 20.
4XNV6 TIL The band Phoenix once played a secret concert at a high school in Austin. To attend, the students needed to have perfect attendance.
dow8 TIL that the popularity of the SNES caught the attention of the Yakuza, prompting Nintendo to ship the consoles at night to prevent theft.
VMR7p TIL In 2007, seeds were found frozen below the permafrost. Thought to have been buried by Arctic ground squirrels around 31,500 to 32,300 years ago in the Ice Age. Out of 600,000 seeds, three embryos successfully germinated into plants. Currently the oldest confirmed viable seeds on Earth.