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TIL There is a vault in the arctic that stores over 860k different varieties of food crop seeds as an insurance policy for the world’s food supply

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RlJ6 TIL Comedian Mitch Hedberg’s heroin addiction was so severe that it mangled his right leg to the point of amputation, instead doctors performed a 13 hour surgery to save his leg leaving him with a limp for the rest of his life.
jQoE TIL Peter Dinklage is the only American cast member in Game of Thrones with a leading role.
R7pk8 TIL Neuroscience shows people can’t actually read and listen at the same time so having too much text on a PowerPoint slide is useless
X0waX TIL Jonny Kim is a Korean American, Astronaut, Doctor, Navy Seal
MeyP7 TIL Sappers defuse over 5,000 World War II bombs in Germany every year