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

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mxX7p TIL that the Where’s Waldo book series was released with different names internationally. In Britain you were looking for Wally, Germans searched for tiny Walter, the French scoured the pages for petite Charlie, and if you were a young South African you tried to spot a little Willie.
Z8DDQ TIL Isaac Newton developed nearly all his best-known theories during an impromptu "gap year," while Cambridge University was closed due to plague.
grElX [TIL] The longest boxing fight ever was 7+ hours long, and it lasted for 108 rounds. It ended in a no contest.
g6oy TIL a man took 23 years to travel to every country and region in the world.
WvM8 TIL almost every single relationship between our planets orbits are fibonacci sequence numbers