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TIL Greenland is part of North America

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agNb TIL It takes the whole year’s crop from one Cocoa tree to make 450gms of Chocolate.
D1gkY TIL that in 1981 the Pentagon spent $6 million trying to determine whether or not burning a photograph of a Soviet missile would destroy the actual missile
N75V1 TIL that the Rare Earth hypothesis states that the origin of life on Earth required an improbable combination of astrophysical, as well as geological events in order to occur, and will likely not happen again in the Universe.
NXgPQ TIL that contrary to popular belief, shaking a champagne bottle does not increase it's pressure. The pressure actually drops a tiny bit
Lk61P TIL that a christian leader who says God sends natural disasters to punish gay people, had his house destroyed in a flood in 2016