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TIL That Torula Yeast, an ingredient in many foods including Planters Dry Roasted Peanuts, is a product created by wood pulp production.

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DwPe TIL Oliver Sipple, who stopped an assassination attempt on Gerald Ford, was disowned by his family and was never invited to the white house to be thanked because he was gay.
NX0xM TIL that Tina Turner was so famous in Australia that she has an official dance to one of her songs "Nutbush City Limits" (the nutbush) and they filmed her singing on the Sydney Harbour Bridge!!!
yVj0p TIL there's a spider, Cyclosa ginnaga, that builds larger, fake spider decoys in its web to deter predators. The decoys are made from debris, insect carcasses, and silk.
VMx84 TIL Art Garfunkel has kept a list of every book he's read since 1968, and lists Fifty Shades of Grey among his favorites
rkey TIL that hundreds of thousands of feral goats were exterminated using helicopters and rifles on the Galápagos Islands to protect the local Tortoise population.