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TIL that Italy sells more Italian olive oil than it can produce

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oRpVo Today I learned: That just 2 months after 9/11, another commercial airliner, American Airlines Flight 587, crashed into a NYC neighborhood in Queens after a critical mechanical/piloting failure just minutes after take off. 265 people were killed and several homes were completely destroyed.
Vwok TIL that Mother Teresa’s supposed “miracle cure” of a woman’s abdominal tumor was not a miracle at all. The patient’s doctors and husband said she was cured because she took medicine for 9-12 months. “My wife was cured by the doctors and not by any miracle.”
oRpnR TIL that over 60% of global iron reserves and most of the iron ore currently mined were created by precambrian bacteria. These cyanobacteria caused the Great Oxygenation Event, where free oxygen became much more common on Earth. Some of this oxygen combined with iron to form banded iron formations.
GAKlG TIL Americans pronounce Bologna as Baloney
WkG1A TIL Sir Isaac Newton repeatedly did experiments sticking a bodkin (a very sharp needle) between his eyeball and his eye socket, “as neare to backside of my eye as I could”,he was quoted. He did this til he saw spots. He did it because he hoped he might learn something about color.