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TIL Sugarcane is the world’s largest crop. In 2010, it was cultivated on about 23.8 million hectares, in more than 90 countries, with a worldwide harvest of 1.69 billion tons.

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ar7b TIL in Chinese and Japanese, diabetes translates literally to “sugar pee sickness”.
loRl1 TIL the Japanese names for Jessie and James from Pokémon are Musashi and Kojiro, respectively. This is a reference to renowned Japanese swordsmen Miyamoto Musashi and Sasaki Kojiro, who fought a famous duel in 1612.
nK9W TIL that Bruce Banner originally “transformed into the Hulk at sunset and reverted at sunrise.”
EgWrp TIL the 1966 song "River Deep – Mountain High" which was written by Phil Spector, cost a then unheard of $22,000 ($207,000 in 2023), and required 21 session musicians. It was reported that the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson attended the session, where he sat "transfixed" and "did not say a word."
6A0l TIL that the term “debugging” actually originated, and was popularized by Grace Hopper when her associates discovered and removed an actual moth that was stuck inside a relay of the Harvard Mark II, impeding its performance.