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TIL That A Trillion-Meal Study, The Largest Ever Of Its Kind, Has Shown Genetically Modified Crops To Be 100% Safe & Just As Nutritious As Non-Modified Crops

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pxa4 TIL in ‘91, 8 people were sealed inside a 3 acre dome. The sealed structure housed 7 ecosystems: ocean, desert, savannah, rainforest, marsh, an area of intensive agriculture and a human habitat. The project was designed to see whether humans could survive and adapt.
4gKR TIL there is an ISO standard for making tea.
WkYB9 TIL That modern north american earth worms are not native and were brought over by english colonist.
p8knA TIL Larry Hillblom, the H of DHL, regularly took "sex safari" trips to Asia to prey on underage girls. When he died in a plane crash, 4 of the illegitimate children he fathered were able to claim $50 million each from his estate.
epD5 Today I learned that many of the men who acted as guards along the Great Wall of China in the Middle Ages spent their whole lives there. They were born there, raised there, they married there, died there, and were even buried within the wall.