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TIL "Biosphere 2" was a closed ecological system which produced food sufficiency for the seven human inhabitants

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W756d TIL Germany and the UK have lower GDP per capita (2024) than any U.S. state except Mississippi.
b6gO0 TIl that in 1994 during an attempted diplomatic visit to Ireland Boris Yeltsin caused a diplomatic incident when his plane landed at Shannon airport and he failed to step off the plane onto Irish soil because he was too drunk to walk
Wk76N TIL that fraternal twins can have different fathers
XwOD TIL if all the LEGO bricks produced were shared out equally every single person on Earth would own 86 LEGO bricks.
PYRKO TIL Kanō Jigorō, creator of judo, also served as the Japanese representative to many Olympics and had a pivotal role in securing Japan's bid for the 1940 Olympics. He was indifferent towards the inclusion of judo, however, as it was not "mere sport" but rather "a principle of life, art and science."