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TIL Even without fossil fuels, we will exceed our 565 gigatonnes CO2e limit by 2030, all from raising animals.

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mG9Y TIL that in 19th century England, a man by the name of Jack Black was an expert rat catcher. When he caught rats of unusual colour, he would breed them and sell the well bred rats to nobility. Even Queen Victoria kept a pet rat or two.
ymMl TIL that after Marilyn Monroe converted to Judaism upon marrying Arthur Miller, Egypt placed a ban on all the films she appeared in.
X04oX TIL that "Dhoodh Peeti" was a type of female infanticide prevalent in few northwestern parts of India in which newborn girls were drowned in pails or pits of cow milk. The phrase is a euphemism which literally means "Feeding of milk"
LabP TIL, aged 12, Margaret Thatcher saved pocket money to help pay for a Jewish girl escaping Nazi Germany, whom her family provided sanctuary during WWII
D1vEe TIL Agatha Christie essentially invented the standard modern crime fiction formula that most TV shows follow: A murder is committed, multiple suspects (all concealing secrets), the detective gradually uncovers the secrets, discovering the most shocking twists towards the end and solving the crime.