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TIL there are "only" 20.5 million shipping crates in existence to supply 8 billion people

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yVjNe TIL about the artist August Natterer, who suffered from Schizophrenia, On 1 April 1907, he had a hallucination of the Last Judgment, in which he saw "10,000 images [flash by] in half an hour." He then spent his life creating art from the images he saw, under the pseudonym 'Neter'.
wowMY TIL that the United States is home to about 43% of Golf Courses Worldwide, more than any other nation.
ML4K TIL that in WW1 only two nations did not execute their soldiers for desertion, the United States and Australia.
NXwbP TIL that I learned that "Passamaquoddy" is not just a fictional town from the movie "Pete's Dragon", but also the name Native American/First Nations people who live in northeastern North America.
J18jQ TIL about the Norway ''Oil Fund'', which was established in 1990 to invest the surplus revenues of the Norwegian petroleum sector. It currently has over $1,477 billion in assets.