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TIL Popeye used to eat spinach because German chemist Wolf miscalculated the amount of iron(to 10x) in spinach

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78GP7 TIL that the town of Alvira, PA was purchased by the DOD during WW2 & all its residents displaced. They built about 150 bunkers to housed munitions. Today you can find remaining bunkers in State Game Lands 252. (Wear blaze orange!)
W7kXX TIL that Quentin Tarantino, while listing out his favorite movies released between 1992 and 2009, referred to M. Night Shyamalan's "Unbreakable" as one of the true masterpieces of our time. He also said the film was directed by "M. Night Shyamalamadingdong."
VBGDm TIL Dragon Kings were mythical beings from China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam that controlled the rain from their underwater crystal palaces. Although they commanded legions of sea creatures as servants and soldiers, they were not all-powerful and still answered to the gods
DYDJ TIL the Puya Chilensis plant of Chile entangles sheep and birds with spines on its leaves, starving them to death, and then absorbs nutrients as the animals decompose nearby.
1Y6D TIL of the myth of superabundance, which is the belief that no matter how many natural resources humanity uses, the planet will continuously replenish the supply