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TIL: Due to geothermal energy, Iceland produces over a tonne of tomatoes every day

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GAv6N TIL that in 1992, Paramount put a seductive 75-foot cartoon cutout of the character of Holli Would from the movie Cool World on top of the "D" in the Hollywood sign as part of the publicity stunt. Locals protested it as 'sign prostitution' until it was taken down.
QJQ6e TIL The New Oxford American Dictionary made up the fake word "esquivalience" and inserted it into their dictionary. This false entry was included to expose any people who might copy Oxford's content and use it in their own work.
4x9w TIL a Black Robin named Old Blue has become the mother of her entire species when she was the last fertile female in a group of 5 Robins. There are now 250 Black Robins on the Chatham Islands, and have raised their status from Critically Endangered to Endangered.
6NlQ TIL Al-Jahiz, an Arabic scholar, wrote about evolution and natural selection 1,000 years before Charles Darwin
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