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TIL: The United States consumes 80% of the world’s opioids

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R7Qxw TIL That the camera company Kodak created the world's first digital camera in 1975 but chose not to produce any digital products for FIFTEEN YEARS, because they were worried that it might eat into their sales of analog film. By that point the market was crowded and they never recovered.
JYDkV TIL the top of the giant redwood forest were thought to be a lifeless wasteland. But explorers recently discover their canopy contains an entire ecosystem. A lake of fern, top soil a meter deep in its branches, trees and other plants, and crustaceans that only live in water all live up there.
9wdjM TIL that Frank Vallelonga, or Tony Lip, the real-life bodyguard of pianist Don Shirley portrayed by Vigo Mortesen in the 2018 movie The Green Book, grew up to play Carmine Lupertazzi in the Sopranos.
r750 TIL that more Nazis were killed by the Russians in the Battle of Stalingrad alone than were killed during the entire WWII by America
5YXlB TIL : A train station in Japan had plans to close but noticed a student was the only one using it. They decided to close it when she graduates high school.