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TIL that Chicken Soup For The Soul owns Redbox as well as a pet food company

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yvEv TIL John Adams once said that if we learned there was no God or life after death, we should all just take a bunch of opium.
EoKd TIL, Earth’s rotation is gradually slowing. The deceleration is occurring at about 17 milliseconds per 100 years. This will have the effect of lengthening our days, but it’s happening so slowly that it could be as much as 140 million years before the length of a day will have increased to 25 hours.
JYQWV TIL that after the initial discovery of penicillin, scientists scrambled for a fungus that could efficiently produce it. Mary Hunt, a lab assistant, came across a cantaloupe with a golden mold, P. chrysogenum. All penicillin is effectively descended from Mary Hunt’s cantaloupe.
xVpZk TIL Greenland has four distinct Time Zones that cross its boundaries but the country is broken up into UTC0, UTC-1, UTC-3 and UTC-4. UTC-2 is only used during daylight savings. UTC0 is outside the country but the weather station Danmarkshavn, is set to European time for ease of reporting.
0LKy TIL After the Amish schoolhouse shooting by Charles Roberts in 2006, members of the Amish community attended the shooter’s funeral in a show of forgiveness.