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TIL that bitcoin mining consumes more energy than Argentina's annual electricity consumption.

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epZVb TIL American environmentalist John Francis made the decision to refrain from speaking for a day in order to improve his ability to hear his detractors. He made it into a silent commitment for 17 years. He attended school for those 17 years, even receiving a PhD.
5aZr TIL that a hungry frog who is surrounded by dead flies on the ground but no flying ones will starve.
j6xmp TIL that the name Yakult comes from the Esperanto word “jahurto”. This is as the founder believed Esperanto would become a common international language
yQ6Wl TIL of Imber. A village in the UK that has existed since before Roman times, has written records dating to 967AD, is in the doomsday book, and that had every single resident evicted by the army in the 1920's, so they could practice urban warfare there.
VM6XD TIL corn is a fruit ????