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TIL that one acre of hemp (grown in a single season) yields as much paper as up to 4 acres of trees.

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ZEVD TIL of a woman who sat on her boyfriend’s toilet for 2 years. Paramedics had to remove the seat, which accommpanied her to hospital, from the toilet as her skin had grown around it. Her boyfriend brought food and water and asked her to come out of the bathroom daily. She would reply “maybe tomorrow”
pYWob TIL the hats worn by American new wave band Devo were influenced by the German Bauhaus movement, geometric fashion, and Aztec temples. The band members especially liked that, "we kind of looked like Lego toys."
WkkoB TIL There used to be mushroom farms in the Paris Catacombs
X0mQE TIL that the early 1910s/1920s Winnipeg Falcons hockey team was almost entirely made up of Icelandic-Canadians who had been excluded from playing elsewhere because of their immigrant origins. They went on become the 1920 Canadian champs and represent Canada in the 1920 Olympics, where they won gold.
nr7 TIL a man proposed to his girlfriend by contacting a level-developer to make a Portal 2 custom level that led into a wedding chapel in which Ellen McLain (the voice of GLaDOS) popped the question.