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TIL It takes more than 4 million average-sized farts a year to generate enough biogas to power a large-sized home.

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8e1RV TIL that the aluminium based Airstream was the only travel trailer builder in America to survive the Great Depression.
wLo6Y TIL that in Japan insect collecting is so popular that during the summer months they have live giant beetle and other insects for sale in vending machines.
8yvZ TIL That A Trillion-Meal Study, The Largest Ever Of Its Kind, Has Shown Genetically Modified Crops To Be 100% Safe & Just As Nutritious As Non-Modified Crops
VBk5D TIL the most commonly used name for a character in a movie is "Jack"
X0o5r TIL that in 2022 scientists researching life’s origins observed that rocks known as basaltic glasses (usually found where lava is quenched or where meteorite impacts cool) were able to spontaneously link individual RNA letters - nucleoside triphosphates, into RNA strands up to 300 letters long.