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TIL There is a Nigerian floating village of nearly 100,000 people that is self-sufficient and self-policing: There's electricity, hotels, schools, and restaurants fully independent of the mainland

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4XELw At least one-third of early deaths could be prevented if everyone moved to a vegetarian diet, Harvard scientists have calculated.
J1LGV TIL about guayule (pronounced why-OO-lee). An alternative to rubber trees, it has a rubber content of 3% - 7%. It can be grown in hot, desert climates requiring a fraction of the water/fertilizer that rubber trees do. It's also weed, insect and disease resistant. It was used by the US in WW2.
oBQOr TIL in 2009 a drunk broker traded 7 million barrels of oil, representing 69% of the total market, in two and a half hours. This drove oil prices up by $1.50/barrel world wide and cost his firm $10 million.
WkMR4 TIL that 37% of all registered Steam games have never been played. This equates to 288 million of the 781 million games registered, are left untouched.
djpE TIL: 90% of media in the US is controlled by 6 major news networks known as “The Big Six.”