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TIL that the world needs topsoil to grow 95% of crops, and we may run out of topsoil within the next 60 years.

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n1BW TIL that when Jimi Hendrix was once asked how it felt to be the world’s greatest guitarist, he replied: ‘I don’t know, go ask Rory Gallagher’
epeOn Today I learned that Winston Churchill's mother Jennie took as a second husband George Cornwallis West, who was 20 years her junior. Thus, Winston Churchill technically had a stepfather who was his own age (just sixteen days older, to be exact).
ne5Q9 TIL In Alaska, plants can grow freakishly large due to the 20 hours of sunshine they receive per day - which gives them a photosynthesis bonus. Examples include 138 lb cabbage, 65 lb cantaloupe, & 35 lb broccoli. A noted side effect is that the produce is also much sweeter due to the extra sunlight.
YpWxB TIL the largest farm tractor in the world has 1100 horsepower and weighs over 100,000lbs with it's fuel tank full.
kJZ0W TIL that Tom Tom Club's Tina Weymouth did not play bass on the band's studio recording of "Genius of Love". She suffered a bad hand cramp from overplaying and had to enlist the help of an assistant studio engineer, likely Kendall Stubbs from Compass Point Studios, Bahamas, where the LP was recorded.