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TIL that El Ejido, Spain is surrounded by a sea of greenhouses covering 150 square miles producing 2.5 million tons of produce.

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VQQp TIL Up until the 17th century humans practiced 2 sleeps a day instead of the modern uninterrupted 8 hour a night norm. Studies have shown that the idea of 2 sleeps is much more in tune in what our bodies actually want us to do.
4XDdb TIL: At the end of the Buddy Holly song, "I'm Gonna Love You Too," there's a live cricket chirp that can be heard on the recording. Holly and the group decided to leave it in the song as it was on beat, and his band has only months earlier decided to call themselves The Crickets.
eom5 TIL In Japan, young kids play a game called, “Kancho” in which they stick their fingers in the unsuspecting victim’s anus for fun.
ZR5R TIL deaf schizophrenics can have auditory hallucinations
KOPjw TIL that Japan's All Nippon Airways is now asking passengers on select flights to empty their bladders before boarding.If all 216 passengers on an ANA Boeing 767 had pretty full bladders, that extra urine would weigh about 240 pounds.