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TIL it can take up to 2,700 liters of water to produce the cotton needed to make a single t-shirt.

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rRDvM TIL about a Confederate cemetery in Oxford Mississippi. Currently there is only one large marker for the cemetery, there use to be individual headstones for each plot but years ago the groundskeeper moved them to cut the lawn and forgot where they belonged.
JvA1 TIL of James Randi a psychic debunker and former magician that carries and will give a check of $1,000,000 (one million dollars) to anyone that can demonstrates any form of psychic, supernatural, or paranormal ability under satisfactory observation.
Z85eD TIL of Knut Haugland, WW2 Norwegian resistance fighter who took part in Operation Gunnerside which the film The Heroes of Telemark was based on. Haugland was later captured by the nazis and escaped, twice and would later be part of the Kon Tiki crew alongside Thor Heyerdal. A total badass.
8amnK TIL in “Mein Kampf,” Hitler praises America as the one state that has made progress toward a primarily racial conception of citizenship, by “excluding certain races from naturalization.”
0wO4L TIL that cockroaches represent rebirth and resistance as a spirit animal.