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TIL sand is the second most used natural resource worldwide, after fresh water

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v5pj TIL that London’s famous “fog” is actually a form of air pollution, which killed 4,000 people during a two-week episode 1952.
8aQD8 TIL: Friday the 13th occurs on an average of once every 212.35 days, but the next one is 427 days away, in September of 2019, being more than double the average.
QNenX TIL that Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky, Sigmund Freud and Tito all lived in Vienna at the same time (around 1913), just within a few kilometres of each other.
P1LKn TIL in 2005 Gary Beach became the first artist to play the same part on Broadway and in movie theatres at the same time after returning to his stage role as Roger De Bris while The Producers movie was in release
wAgW TIL of an indoor vegetable factory in Japan that produces up to 10,000 heads of lettuce per day and uses just 1% of the amount of water needed for outdoor fields