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TIL that itally has its own distinctive variety of rice

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m18eY TIL wild mammals account for only 4% of the total mammal biomass on Earth (humans account for 36% and domesticated livestock 60%)
wLwpJ TIL one day Isaac Newton was asked by his colleagues why planets’ orbits are elliptical. He couldn’t answer so he went home and started thinking about it. A while later he invented differential and integral calculus, which he then used to answer the question.
OJAe TIL that the US aircrew that atom-bombed Nagasaki took a tour of the nuked city a month later and spoke to local Japanese …but kept who they were a secret.
MRKK TIL in 2013, a NY Times Reporter discovered that a 1-liter saline IV bag (sterilized salt water) cost $.44 to $1.07 to produce. By the time it was billed to a patient, however, the cost increased between 100% and 1000%.
R5NP1 TIL Ancient Earth May Have Smelled Like Rotten Eggs