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TIL that a primary source of nutrients for the Amazon is dust blown from the Bodele Depression, a dry lakebed in Africa.

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69yRQ TIL about Cargill, the largest company in the USA, that NGO Mighty Earth called "Three worst company in the world" that drives "the most important problems facing our world"
Kxy6 TIL in 1962, investor Warren Buffett agreed to selling shares of a failing company for $11.50 per share. The tender offer was for only $11.375, so Buffett decided to buy more stock, took control of the company and fired the man who made the offer.
X84r TIL Charlie Chaplin not only wrote, directed, produced, edited and starred in his films but for many also composed the musical scores.
NXgP TIL that Charles Darwin married his first cousin, Emma Wedgwood, and together they had ten children.
wonR1 TIL that Nicolas Cage was once awoken by a naked man eating a Fudgesicle