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TIL that the Great Wall of China actually extends into the sea.

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jNlxR TIL Mexico passed a law that requires food packages to display large black octagonal "warnings" if the product is high in sugar, sodium, calories, or unhealthy fats.
9w5LM TIL of the Gunnbjörn's skerries. A group of small islands roughly halfway between Greenland and Iceland, they were colonized by Norse settlers, with a successful colony of 18 farms by 1391. By 1456, they reportedly "completely burned up" and disappeared, presumably destroyed in a volcanic event.
ANwvB TIL about the phrase "Sick as a Parrot" which unlike the one I know "Sick as a dog" is apparently reference to being disappointed or sad because you aren't "bright and beautiful" from a 1682 comedy. Apparently it used to be common in the UK - I'm so excited to learn it!
RZyj TIL there is an indoor farm in japan that can produce 10,000 heads of lettuce in a day, while using 99% less water than an outdoor farm.
ADMr7 TIL: The guy who played Carlo in the Godfather shot and killed a member of the Medellin Cartel who was harassing a female patron in his casino and who had stabbed him with a broken bottle. Pablo Escobar put out a hit until he realized the target was in one of his favorite movies.