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TIL There is a restaurant in Spain that grills its food over a volcano

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XXYE TIL there’s a lot of plastic trash in the ocean. We dumped about five shopping bags full of plastic for every foot of coastline in the world in 2010 alone.
GADGj TIL that China alone accounts for over 90% of global spinach production
OoylL TIL that the popularity of salt and pepper as near universal table condiments was due to Louis XIV who considered most other forms of seasoning a vulgar act. Today, over 27,000 tons of black pepper is consumed by US alone.
g7r7 TIL when Nintendo launched the SNES in America, some parents thought Nintendo was manipulating their children into purchasing an unnecessary system, and forced their kids to go to therapy sessions to show them how they were being “exploited”
jNEVE TIL Scooby Doo did a parody of The Blair Witch Project that was aired only once on Cartoon Network