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TIL a medium-sized dog has the same environmental cost as a SUV

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nWjxW TIL that Ghostface Killah of the Wu-Tang Clan got his stage name not from Scream, but from Mystery of Chessboxing, a 1979 kung fu movie. In fact, Scream came out in 1996, three years after the first Wu-Tang album.
DQ9eP TIL that Alexander the Great one put on a staged naval battle using his favorite food as their weapon, apples.
0weA1 TIL that cosmic dust, micro-meteor remnants from the birth of our solar system, falls all over the world at a rate of 4,000 tons annually. We literally eat it, inhale it and live in it every day.
xYkg TIL that, in 2007, Princes William and Harry asked Channel 4 not to broadcast a documentary featuring footage of their mother’s dying moments. Channel 4 broadcast the documentary anyway, then put out an additional programme an hour later to debate whether it had been right for them to do so.
kJY6e TIL male genital transplant surgeons exclude the testicles because the deceased organ donor would be the biological father with regard to future pregnancies