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TIL of Jon Minnoch, the heaviest human ever recorded, weighing over 1400lbs.

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XE8XR TIL NBA player George Hill owns an 850-acre ranch in Texas filled with kangaroos, zebras, ostriches, wildebeests, elk, antelope, Arabian oryx, red lechwes, New Zealand red stags, kudus, and other exotic animals
m1abE TIL Leontyne Price was the first African American Opera soprano to receive international acclaim for her performances. (And she's 98 years old!)
W74VB TIL that in 1990s China, Pizza Hut customers turned “one-trip” salad bars into engineering feats. Using cucumber walls, dense cores of beans or carrots, and alternating layers of lettuce, fruit, and meat, they built towering salads that defied gravity-leading Pizza Hut to ban salad bars entirely.
dDj1Z TIL Looney Tunes’ Porky Pig’s original voice actor, Joe Dougherty, had a stutter he couldn’t control. It caused production costs to became too high as his recording sessions took hours. Mel Blanc replaced him, allowing the stutter to be controlled and used comedically
P1ZgL TIL that photosynthesis doesn't recycle CO₂ into oxygen, the oxygen actually comes from water. Plants break down water (H₂O) to consume the hydrogen necessary to make sugar, and release the oxygen. The CO₂ is never broken down, plants just use it as a building block to make larger carbon compounds.