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

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wLRmJ TIL the Wolf Reintroduction Changes Ecosystem in Yellowstone including an increase in beaver colonies
OZJL TIL Samuel L. Jackson was supposed to have an afro in Pulp Fiction; the production assistant who bought his wig didn’t know the difference between an afro and a jheri curl
mxAKM TIL that men wearing wedding rings was not common until World War 2, when soldiers would wear a ring to remind them of their love back home. After WW2, it became mainstream for men to wear a wedding ring.
d8yPB TIL that although you need to be 21 to purchase alcohol in the United States, states have the right to make exceptions to when a minor may consume alcoholic beverages
6E6W TIL that according to Bart Ehrman, Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at UNC Chapel Hill, at least 11 of the 27 books in the New Testament are forgeries- many of which were written by “early Christian leaders trying to settle theological feuds.”