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TIL Hermione Granger is 34 years old. Today.

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Z0Ro TIL there are more slaves today than at any other point in human history. Nearly half of which are in India.
E1DVV TIL: In March 2015, McDonald’s workers who allegedly suffered severe burns on the job have filed health and safety complaints. The complaints allege that, because of a lack of first aid supplies, workers were told by management to treat burn injuries with condiments such as mayonnaise and mustard.
PYmVw TIL about the Irukandji jellyfish, a small and venomous jellyfish, that lives off the Australian coast. A sting, which initially feels like a mosquito bite, escalates to "Irukandji Syndrome", causing pain, cramping, headaches, vomiting, anxiety, and an impending sense of doom.
rKky TIL when executives first saw “A Charlie Brown Christmas” they said, “‘We’ll play it once and that will be all. Good try.” One of the animators stood up in the back of the room—he had had a couple of drinks—and he said, ‘It’s going to run for a hundred years,’ and then fell down.
GY7Q5 TIL soil is not a renewable resource. Soil is 1 of 2 main components of Earth — the other being oceans — where life is active. Human life depends on healthy soil, just like it depends on clean air and clean water, but losses of soil cannot be regained within a lifetime.