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TIL Due to pollution and malnutrition more than 40 million people in mainland China have been diagnosed as infertile.

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xV7wB TIL half of the plastic on Earth has been created since 2002, and we each consume a credit card's worth of plastic every week
BYvK TIL that when male lions are neutered they don’t grow a mane or lose the mane.
PY91e TIL that an 11-year-old boy was suspended for 364 days for bringing what "looked like a marijuana leaf" to school, despite it being tested negative for marijuana three times.
X0GOj TIL that there are 72 names of scientists, engineers, and mathematicians engraved on the Eiffel Tower
xV9b0 TIL Carl Jung was an undercover operative (“Agent 488”) for the allies during World War 2. His commanding officer Allen W. Dulles said that “Nobody will probably ever know how much Prof Jung contributed to the allied cause during the war." Dulles later became the first director of the CIA.