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TIL that China alone accounts for over 90% of global spinach production

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bEdQ TIL that when when a man named Larry Rutman threw a boomerang and hit himself in the head, he sued himself for $300,000, and surprisingly won, with all the money coming from his insurance.
Brb9D TIL that episode of Peppa Pig called "Mr Skinny Legs" was banned in Australia because it tells that "spiders can't hurt you" and "spiders are friendly and not to be feared"
PYvEJ Today I learned that the demand for mummies outstripped supply causing people to make fakes out of newer corpses in order to make a paint called Mummy Brown.
KmmJ TIL the 5,300-year-old mummified man found in the Alps had 61 tattoos.
OGBje TIL That the skeletons in the pool scene in Poltergeist were real human skeletons.