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TIL In 2012 a biotech startup succeeded wildly in turning seaweed into ethanol biofuel but went bust because seaweed is worth almost twice as much as ethanol

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16074 TIL Disneyland uses hidden ‘smellitizers’ to fill the air with vanilla scents
pJGA TIL that in Jamaica sex between two men is punishable with up to 10 years of prison while sex between two women is legal.
Y4a7 TIL that while FDR was the first President to win election more than twice, he was the fifth to try. Ulysses S. Grant, Grover Cleveland, and Woodrow Wilson tried and were denied their party’s nomination
vWNx TIL Optimus Prime has died more than 25 times in the last 30 years across comics, cartoons, movies, and video-games. It has become a running joke among Transformer fans.
YpGnd TIL there's an underwater mountain in the middle Lake Superior that rises from the lake bottom (400 feet down) to as high as 21 feet below the surface. Some say Superior Shoal was responsible for the 1975 wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.