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TIL that the earths ozone layer is on track to healing completely within 50 years.

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ADMXB TIL that the grocery chain ALDI actually has two separate groups in Germany. its country of origin: Aldi "south" and Aldi "north". In the US, Aldi "south" kept the name, and Aldi "north" became Trader Joe's.
B54L TIL A 2016 study determined that drug companies withheld results indicating that anti-depressants can nearly double the likelihood of suicide and violent behavior
61mZ TIL that the Milky Way will collide with the Andromeda galaxy in 4 billion years, but the stars in each galaxy are so far apart that none of the individual stars will collide.
MEb0 TIL that Tobe Hooper came up with the idea of a chainsaw as the murder weapon for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre when he was at a hardware store and was wondering how he could speed his way through the crowd.
mxNxE TIL that Madagascar has a larger population than Australia by almost a million people. Madagascar has a population of 25,570,900 while Australia has 24,598,930.