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TIL it takes 7323 Litres (1611 Gallons) to produce 1 litre of Almond Milk, and 80% of the world's almonds are produced in California which has been in severe drought for most of the past decade.

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X0LeX TIL about "It's Pat," a 1994 comedy movie based on the SNL character Pat, an androgynous misfit played by Julia Sweeney. It bombed at the box office so badly (grossing only $60,822 against an $8 million budget) that Touchstone Pictures pulled it from theaters after it's opening weekend.
yQ6oJ TIL Although considered a contemporary classic, the original Back to the Future script was rejected more than 40 times, was going to be titled Space Man From Pluto, & had a refrigerator as the time machine, not the DeLorean.
Yp5aG TIL The association between glasses and being elderly/weak/passive faded when Theodore Roosevelt was regularly photographed wearing his pince-nez glasses. Other famously bespectacled people of the era are the actor Harold Lloyd and the cricket player Ernest Killick.
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XEPAj TIL the human Coronavirus causes approximately 15% of cases of the common cold