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TIL 75 percent of the world's food is generated from only 12 plants and five animal species.

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aXOb TIL: Charles Guiteau, the assassin of President James A. Garfield, chose a .442 caliber British Bulldog revolver with an ivory handle because he thought it would look good in a museum exhibit after the assassination. The revolver has since been lost and its whereabouts are unknown.
Br5Jy TIL what happened to those tiny coffee spoons they used to have at McDonald’s in the 70’s. McDonald’s got rid of them because people were using them to sniff cocaine.
gMRvb TIL a 1991 New York Supreme Court case found that “as a matter of law”, a house which had been sold was officially considered haunted. The owners had sold the house without disclosing they believed it to be haunted and had advertised it as such, lowering the property value.
LkLb9 TIL Dandelions are not indigenous to North America and were introduced by European settlers
x6Pog TIL Hawaii’s 6th largest island, Lanai, is 98% owned by the co-founder of Oracle