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TIL that California produces 100% of the U.S almond supply and 80% of the global almond supply

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Y7PDA TIL Mel Gibson couldn't get any studio to fund ‘Passion of the Christ’. Instead of scrapping the film, he chose to finance it all by himself, an action which analysts labelled as “idiotic”. He spent $30M on the film & went on to make over $475M because he didn't have to split the profits
4XRxo TIL in 2011 at a rural Western NY high school, 14 students came down with an illness: verbal outbursts, tics, seizures, and speech problems. Fears about the cause of the outbreak drew national media attention. One girl had Tourette syndrome. The rest had mass psychogenic illness: mass hysteria.
7rNdL Homesick student Kleon Papadimitriou biked 48 days to make it back home to his family during lockdown!
PYZ9E TIL That the number zero was invented in India more than a thousand years ago
dD0GK TIL about Ratatoskr a squirrel in Old Norse mythology who runs up and down the world tree Yggdrasil to carry messages (mostly insults) between the eagles perched atop Yggdrasil, and the serpent Níðhöggr.