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TIL that airplane food is heavily seasoned but your sense of taste is dulled when you're on an airplane.

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x6685 TIL that the green revolution of the 1950s and 60s led to the widespread reduction--and in some places elimination--of famine and food insecurity. One leading figure in the revolution, Norman Borlaug, is credited with saving at least 1 billion people from starvation.
5orD TIL that Slash and Betty White did a commercial together where they look at toads
5VAy9 TIL that in May 2023 the largest ocean-going wooden Sailing ship, the Götheborg, rescued a Sailing boat in distress
Dw0P TIL “Circlejerk” is a term used to describe an oligarchy that is “self-perpetuated by members granting each other disproportionate rewards for work that is of limited merit”
wL7G6 TIL a US law firm set up honeypots on torrent-sharing site The Pirate Bay and then sued people who downloaded their torrents. The matter reached the FBI and the pirate site accepted to collaborate with the feds resulting in the crooked lawyers getting jail time.