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TIL L. Ron Hubbard claimed to be a nuclear physicist, even though his only exposure to the field was one college course, which he flunked

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kOBEB TIL Rice farming occupies almost a third of Earth’s fresh water.
Zpv0o TIL that scientists used a dating method to show a Viking ax cut trees on the North American continent exactly 1000 years ago, in 1021 C.E. This dating method uses a spike in solar radiation that left a mark in tree rings around the world. This proves the Vikings arrived before Christopher Columbus.
EMrW TIL people still hunt polar bears with spears, and the courts will enforce their right to do so.
jNNZR TIL of Neom, a $500 billion utopian territory based on tech and liberal values that Saudi Arabia plans to build by 2025
Oo97L TIL Nearly 700 million people get a mosquito-borne illness each year. 19 diseases are transmitted by mosquitoes include Malaria, Dengue, West Nile virus, Keystone virus, Rift Valley fever, La Crosse encephalitis, Chikungunya, Zika fever, etc. Doctors can typically identify a mosquito bite by sight.