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TIL that only 12 species of plants provide ¾ of the world’s food.

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7rbKr TIL that while young Robert E. Lee worked surveying the boundary between Ohio and Michigan, he jokingly referred in a letter to a snake he killed in a lighthouse as the lighthouse's keeper. Lee's biographer Douglas Southall Freeman misinterpreted this as an admission that Lee killed a human keeper.
kO0V1 TIL About 85 percent of the things you worry about never happen.
wbxP TIL Five Men Agreed To Stand Directly Under An Exploding Nuclear Bomb
D1aLj TIL A company was fined 1,190,000 Euros for text message scams and was caught 2 years later doing the same thing.
p8aLQ TIL Belgium committed Genocide in Congo in a 52-year colonial rule, killing 10-15 million Congolese