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TIL that Nicholas Flamel was a real person who is believed to have discovered the Philosopher’s stone

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xVv65 TIL in China, the one-child policy has wreaked havoc. By encouraging the birth of boys rather than girls, an imbalance of the sexes has emerged. China will now have a surplus of 30 to 40 million men under the age of 19. That’s the equivalent of the entire population of young men in the United States
Lk0jd TIL The cleaning up of WW1 battlefields is still ongoing and some estimate it will take 300-700 more years to complete. However there are also some areas which are so toxic 99% of animals and plant life cannot survive.
gVB9 TIL Ben and Jerry’s have an actual cemetery for discontinued flavors of ice cream!
WDOL TIL Keanu Reeves was to play the role of Spike Spiegel in a live-action Cowboy Bebop movie. Initial plans were made in 2008-2009 and the director Watanabe stated in 2014 that the movie had faced a lot of “Hollywood problems”
4wmJ TIL in the 1970’s, a plane carrying 6,000lbs. of marijuana crashed in a remote area of Yosemite National Park. Local mountaineers, rock climbers, hippies, and drug dealers made excursions to the area to take as much product as they could, all while the US government tried to secure the drugs.