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TIL that the clothing company Patagonia has a sustainably sourced food line.

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mavR TIL That CERN collects 30 petabytes of data (3 x 10^10Mb) every year from smashing protons together in the Large Hadron Collider
KQDR TIL that British Paratroopers on D-Day discarded their 9mm Sten Guns for captured German MP 40s as the Sten Gun was horrifically unreliable, whereas the Schmeisser was an excellent SMG
XEvDE TIL during the Great Depression, the mortality rate of the US population actually improved. People lived on average 6 years longer.
xVBX7 TIL Microbes living within tree trunks and root systems generate massive amounts of methane (50-65 million tons of methane annually from wetland trees alone)
j6Ekn TIL that a meteor strike in a very isolated area of Siberia in 1908 flattened 830 miles of forest. It is the largest meteor strike ever recorded, it was called the Tunguska Event.