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TIL human poop is used as fertilizer on farm fields

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ryaw TIL Bruce Willis has publicly sold Girl Scout cookies for the United States armed forces. His daughter, Tallulah, sold him on the idea of buying cookies and sending them to troops in the Middle East. He did so and bought 12,000 cookies.
oBbAR TIL that the dwarf Planet "Pluto" has yet to complete a full orbit of the Sun since its discovery, as one Plutonian year is 247.68 years long
eJYb TIL that Stephen King novels “IT” and “The Shining” are set in the same universe, the character Dick Hallorann that is the head chef of the Overlook hotel in The Shining, very briefly appears as a character in IT.
0w4vj TIL of Christopher Knight who lived as a hermit for 27, never talking to or even meeting any other human. He survived by stealing from remote cabins, scattered in the wilderness of Maine.
MyMb TIL that it used to be compulsory for figure skaters to slowly trace precise, intricate shapes into the ice to be inspected by judges for scoring – hence the name ‘figure skating’.