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TIL Steven Seagal made a country/blues/reggae album and it’s so much worse than you might imagine. I included a link to a fantastically brutal review from ‘09 when it was released.

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rRlN1 TIL in the past 42 years over 51 million trees have been planted in Kenya by the Green Belt Movement founded by Nobel Peace Prize Winner Wangari Maathai.
JYyR1 TIL the earliest known surviving pair of socks were designed to be worn with sandals.
m1o4Y TIL: Typing "--" on an iPhone keyboard instantly creates an em dash (—). Fun fact: This specific punctuation mark is so commonly used by LLMs that its frequency is often used to spot AI-generated content.
9w8kM TIL that in the 1920s a German architect had a plan to drain the Mediterranean sea . The plan called for building a gargantuan dam across the straits of Gibraltar . if successful, this new land connecting Europe and Africa together would have been called Atlantropa .
X0bgr TIL Major League Baseball teams use about 900,000 baseballs per year (they keep 156 balls ready per game) for games and practice. The stitching of a baseball is too difficult to automate so every ball is hand stitched.