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TIL Karl Marx was known for his extravagant and wasteful spending

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Wn6A TIL “eye of newt” in Macbeth is actually just an archaic term for mustard seed
X07MX TIL a startup called "Novamin" marketed a bioglass for toothpaste that can repair damaged enamel; GlaxoSmithKline bought the company in 2010, pulled it from every US toothpaste brand, and now sells it exclusively overseas as Sensodyne Repair and Protect which in the US instead includes fluoride.
GYvK5 TIL that the movie "Titanic" cost more to make than the actual ship
Z8v04 TIL Grazing animals such as horses and bison are known to engineer the landscape around them, for example suppressing the growth of trees by trampling or eating saplings. When this process is harnessed to restore an ecosystem to a previous state it is called rewilding.
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