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TIL there are 4 million square miles of fertile land in Africa that can’t be cultivated because tsetse flies keep killing farm animals

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avnA TIL that you will need a telescope 50 times the size of the Hubble to see objects left by humans on the moon. Even if we use the Hubble Space Telescope to look at the moon, a football stadium sized object would appear as only one pixel.
OGgQ1 TIL that Mattel unsuccessfully sued the record label of the band Aqua, alleging their song "Barbie Girl" infringed upon the toy manufacturers trademark and damaged its image.
J1OrB TIL The tears on Paul Stanley's face on the album cover for "Rock and Roll Over" were just a printing error...
9wya6 TIL in 1775, 80 year-old Samuel Whittemore ambushed British troops, killing three before charging them with a sword. He was shot in the face, bayoneted 6 times, and clubbed 8 times. Left for dead, he was later found reloading his musket while swearing revenge. He went on to live another 18 years
vPbEx TIL that audiences were so convinced that the film "The Battle of Algiers" was newsreel that the American distributors put a notice that "not one foot" of newsreel was used