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Today I learned that a man made hole is deeper than the mariana trench.

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8w4P TIL that Nestlé is draining developing countries to produce its bottled water, destroying countries’ natural resources before forcing its people to buy their own water back.
Eg6Ww TIL the movements typically associated with Parkinson's Disease are actually a side effect of the medication Levodopa prescribed to increase dopamine and not PD itself; these movements are called dyskinesia, whereas PD causes stiffness, slowness and tremor
l7Dx7 TIL Males of the brazilian bee species Eufriesea purpurata are attracted to and collect the insecticide DDT, seemingly without any adverse effects. After DDT was used to cull mosquito populations in villages, the bees became a plague on the local indigenous people
ybMp TIL that the 442nd Infantry Regiment, composed almost entirely of Japanese-Americans whose families were interned, became the most decorated unit in the history of the US army during World War II.
wLkaW TIL that there is a literal difference between a Quest and an Adventure. A Quest is when conflict is forced onto the protagonist (e.g. LotR), and an Adventure is when the protagonist intentionally seeks conflict (e.g. Beowulf).