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

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dVE TIL Christmas is often spelled Xmas because the Greek letter Chi (χ) is used to abbreviate the name Christ.
Oo9g7 TIL that Elvis's "All Shook Up" was first recorded by David Hill, better known as David Hess, famous for his role in "Last House On The Left"
Doop TIL Theodore Roosevelt was against the phrase “In God We Trust” on currency as he considered it sacriligious
GArnj TIL after frontier bandit Big Nose George was lynched from a telephone pole, a doctor turned his skin into shoes, a medical bag, and a coin purse. That same doctor was later elected Governor of Wyoming and wore the skin shoes to his inauguration.
yVBKV TIL that Neapolitan ice cream was created by the head chef for Prussian Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau. Pückler owned an Ethiopian girl whom he purchased at a slave market in Cairo when she was just 11 years old, remaining his sex slave until her death at 16 from tuberculosis