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TIL rice provides about 20% of all human calories worldwide.

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Gno5 TIL that the second rainbow in a double rainbow is always inverted. (amazed I never saw this before.)
e0nlD TIL of Silas Soule, an abolitionist who, among other accomplishments, was present at the Sandy Creek Massacre where he refused to order his men to fire. He testified at Congress against his commanding officer and was murdered soon after, likely as a result of his testimony.
78pb TIL That most newspapers are written at a fifth-grade reading level
4XXYJ TIL the first e-commerce was a drugs deal in the early 1970s
pYyyG TIL that the Stanley Cup is the oldest existing trophy to be awarded professionally in North America, commissioned in 1892 by its namesake the Lord Frederick Arthur Stanley of Preston, 16th Earl of Derby