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TIL: A single almond requires a gallon (3.8 liters) of water to produce. California produces 80% of the planet's almonds using more water than Los Angeles & San Francisco combined, and generating $11 billion (2014) to the CA economy.

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vRgB TIL Bill Clinton has a brother, who was nicknamed “Headache” by the secret service, due to his knack for landing in trouble.
BB4k TIL mouth-breathing can cause weak jaw development, crooked teeth and other unattractive facial features. It literally makes you ugly!
vJe7 TIL the Millennium Tower in San Francisco, a 58-story luxury high-rise whose ‘cheaper apartments’ sell for $2 million, is sinking and tilting to one side - raising fears it may eventually topple over - because “to cut costs, Millennium did not drill piles to bedrock”.
b9yGE TIL less than five per cent of the victims of transatlantic slavery were landed on the coast of the present-day United States. Most enslaved Africans were carried to the Caribbean (45 per cent) or to Brazil (45 per cent).
Rbp9 TIL Warm water freezes faster than cold, and that scientists still don’t know why.