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TIL Robert Frost wrote “The Road Not Taken” to tease his chronically indecisive friend, Edward Thomas, who misinterpreted the meaning and enlisted in the military shortly thereafter, only to be killed two years later in WWI

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MeD18 TIL that the five largest tobacco companies pay US$9 billion dollars to state governments, each and every year, forever, because of a 1998 legal settlement meant to compensate states for the costs of tobacco-related illness such as cancer, emphysema and heart disease.
vNkB TIL that the Nation of Islam teaches that white people are a race of “Devils” created by a black scientist 6,600 years ago on a Greek island.
KZga TIL Daniel Radcliff wore the same outfit each time he left a theatre for 6 months, in order to make paparazzi photographs useless.
DQp4p TIL seafood mislabelling occurs in 25-70%+ of retail products for popular species (red snapper, wild salmon, Atlantic cod). One study found snapper and tuna had the highest mislabeling rates (87% of snapper, 59% of tuna).
WaV4 TIL the Solar System could support 10 quadrillion human beings with the utilization of asteroid resources