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TIL that the phosphorus used in fertilizer for food production is considered a non-renewable and finite resource we will run out of someday

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N7E6N TIL that workers in Cuban cigar factories in the early 1900s employed 'lectores' to read to them while they worked. The reading materials were often literary or political, ranging from socialists newspapers to Shakespearean plays - sometimes leading to clashes with anti-communist factory owners.
JpLj TIL Stan Lee created Iron Man because he thought no one would like him.
k9w4 TIL 400 million years ago, before trees took over, Earth was covered in 24-foot mushrooms called prototaxites.
DQB9P TIL In 1946, an American miner and Baptist preacher named William Henry Johnson began sending out a series of letters under the pen name "Furrier No. 1", claiming to be the living Hitler and to have escaped with Braun to Kentucky.
R77a8 TIL the most dangerous job in the world is that of the South African farmer, with 156 deaths per 100,000