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TIL According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization livestock production accounts for 70 percent of all agricultural land and 30 percent of the land surface of the planet.

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JbMv TIL: “Doctors can use the foreskins of circumcised infants to grow skin for burn victims. Just one foreskin can create 23,000 square meters of skin”
xPYo TIL In the United States, the star denoting the main entry floor of a building is mandated by law.
gMnNW TIL Jackie Stallone, the mother of Sylvester Stallone, is an astrologer and an experienced rumpologist, a pseudoscience wich consist of reading the past and future on a person's buttocks.
eKxn TIL Stairwells in medieval castles curved very narrowly and clockwise. Attackers coming up the stairs had sword hands (right hand) against the interior curve of the wall and made it very difficult to swing their swords. Defenders had their sword hands on the outside wall giving much room to swing.
Yb8d TIL that Exxon’s punitive damages for the Exxon Valdex oil spill were reduced from $5 billion to $507.5 million