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TIL Livestock and their byproducts actually account for at least 32.6 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year, or 51 percent of annual worldwide GHG emissions.

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jNoev TIL Festivus was a real holiday invented by the father of a Seinfeld writer. In their celebration, their dad would also put a clock in a bag & nail it to the wall. “I don't know what it meant...he would always say, "That's not for you to know."”
N7VD6 TIL of the Murray Gell-Man Amnesia Effect, i.e., we give newspapers the benefit of the doubt even after we catch them being inaccurate on subjects we know about. (Term was coined by Michael Crichton in "Why Speculate?")
kJnb7 TIL Pamela Anderson declined to even read the letter from the actress portraying her (Lily James) asking for her blessing in the show Pam and Tommy
b9aY7 TIL that the School of the Americas has had more graduates become dictators than any other school in history
1XQX TIL The Japanese planned on declaring war on America 30 minutes before Pearl Harbor but the transcription took too long, however America had already decoded most of the declaration beforehand .