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TIL lawns take up a roughly equally sized area of the US as Texas does

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LvbP TIL 1 in every 6 couples that use condoms will become pregnant due to misuse. 1 in 50 will become pregnant due to product failure.
Xo8D TIL that in 1997 a US Navy ship’s propulsion system failed because of a division by zero.
e4GE TIL that over the last 100 years, the U.S. has almost emptied the aquifer that took nature more than 10,000 years to fill—and it’s the aquifer that waters our breadbasket region.
Oo7JL TIL: NASA actually published a study of the benefits of plants in the room
p8w6Q TIL of René Carmille, a punched-card computer expert and French double agent who is believed to have saved thousands of lives by sabotaging Nazi efforts to identify Jewish citizens. He eventually was found out, withstood torture, and sent to a concentration camp where he died in January of 1945.