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TIL Nikolai Vavilov a botanist/agronomist that starved to death in prison to defend the importance of biodiversity in agriculture.

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m6ko TIL: In WWII the U.S. dumped millions of dollars worth of Jeeps, Coca-Cola, food, etc. into the ocean to spite the British and French who refused to pay 6 cents on the dollar for everything, thinking eventually they’d get it for free. Found this scuba diving video of it today.
rvEo TIL that some restaurants tried no-tipping, where food prices were raised up to 20%, and ended up losing workers to tipping competitors. Workers earned less but pay was more stable.
b9Yd9 TIL about Team Negative One. A group of Star Wars fans that scanned their own 35mm negatives and digitally restored the movie to it's pre-Special Edition glory.
LkMep TIL printers print nearly invisible codes on your documents which contain information like the date and time it was printed and the printers serialnumber. And some engineers outsmarted this.
6rA7 TIL The Little Mermaid statue has been decapitated twice, had her arm sawn off, has been blown up with explosives and had a dildo stuck to her.