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TIL Ug99 is a plant fungus that may threat worldwide wheat production in the future. It has the potential to cause a massive global famine since it causes up to 100% crop losses. So far, it has been detected in 22 countries in Asia and Africa.

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Akxl TIL while looking for a lost hammer with a metal detector in 1993, a man in England found the largest hoard of late Roman silver and gold ever discovered in Britain. It was worth £1.75m (£2.66m today).
9yKM TIL spelling bees are a particularly American/British phenomenon. Other languages spell their words so intuitively that one can easily spell them just by hearing them. English, on the other hand, contains Latin, Greek, Germanic, etc. roots, not to mention whole words borrowed from other languages.
VJD8 TIL John Cusack has trained in kickboxing for over 20 years and is a sixth-degree black belt.
1aVVW TIL James Van Der Beek's last name translates to English as "from the creek". He is best known for playing the titular character on the 1990s drama series "Dawson's Creek".
Zpl4a Today I learned that the FTC is investigating oil company collusion that caused much of the inflation seen in the US and much of the rest of the world since 2021.