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TIL Rice farming occupies almost a third of Earth’s fresh water.

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JYPlV TIL that within 10 minutes of Allies landing on Omaha beach D-Day 1944,every Officer of the first wave Alpha Company had been killed. 30 minutes later the entire first wave Alpha company had a 96% casualty rate