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TIL more land is used for opium in Afghanistan than is used for coca (the basis of cocaine) in all of Latin America

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AD757 TIL the Pot-in-pot refrigerator uses a porous outer clay pot (lined with wet sand) containing an inner pot within which food is placed. The evaporation of the outer liquid draws heat from the inner pot, and requires only a flow of relatively dry air and a source of water, but no electricity.
ABAB TIL We landed a man on the moon before Alabama allowed interracial Marriage.
Z81EY TIL that Steve Jobs was in line to be awarded as Time Magazine's person of the year for 1982 but they decided to give it to a machine after he gave interviews denying paternity of his own daughter and disparaging the mother. The daughter went on to write a book that details how badly he treated her.
QJBk9 TIL about the oldest marathon runner Fauja Singh who ran his last race at the age of 101 and is currently alive and well at the age of 109.
98Pm TIL Antoine Lavoisier, 18th century French chemist, as a final experiment told his college that he would try to blink as long as possible after being beheaded. Some sources say he continued to blink for 30 seconds.