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1aWPP TIL China built a massive solar farm shaped like a giant panda!
oRpMK TIL Todd Field, director and writer of Tár, helped create the first batch of Big League Chew bubble gum
loNx1 TIL the first virus discovered is the Tobacco mosaic virus, over 100 years ago. It causes a mosaic looking disease in tobacco plants; it can survive for years in cigars and cigarettes made from infected leaves. Wendell Stanley won the Nobel Prize in 1946 for discovering that it's made from protein.
OogQ4 TIL that medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the US after heart disease and cancer
5YgPR TIL women using oral contraceptives blink 32% more often than other women on average for unknown reasons.