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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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v1BR4 TIL that before Joss Whedon settled on the title and concept of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," his first draft of the original movie had a very different title and slant: "Martha the Immortal Waitress"
7WDL TIL the world’s most powerful drug lord, El Chapo Guzman, occasionally walks into restaurants, asks other patrons not to be alarmed, eats his meal and then pays everyone’s tab when he leaves.
JYmAm TIL that Archaeologists discovered a 26-foot statue submerged in ground water in a Cairo slum. The biggest clue pointing to the statue's true identity was the discovery of an inscription on it that read "Nebaa," a name closely linked to Psamtik I.
GrWG TIL A team from Norway and other Scandinavian countries made a viking ship from scratch using viking technology and sailed to North America to prove that the Vikings could do it, and they did!
v1D6x TIL that there are ants called driver ants and are fucking horrifying (if any driver ants are reading please don’t hurt me)