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TIL the amount of arable land (land that crops can grow on) per person on the planet is .19 hectacres, less then half a football field (excluding endzone).

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LQ1nm TIL that Albania had no standard gauge railways until 1947, built over 660km (410mi) in forty years, then closed the entire network in 2021.
x6aLk TIL that some victims of the Hammond Circus Train Wreck 1918 were so badly burned, that they were wrongly thought to be African-American train porters.
r1ry TIL that during most military funerals, a fake bugle with an embedded speaker is used to play “Taps”
MxLV TIL Netflix created House of Cards by noticing that viewers liked Kevin Spacey and David Fincher movies.
mkBP TIL “Fordite,” also known as Detroit agate, is old automobile paint which has hardened sufficiently to be cut and polished. It is now used by many artists in jewelry-making.