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TIL Food deserts are places where residents don’t have access to affordable nutritious foods like fruits and vegetables. Instead these areas often have convenience stores and gas stations with limited shelf space available for healthy options - making nutritious foods virtually inaccessible.

16QAV TIL The Triangle of Death in Italy is one of the most toxic sites in the world. This area contains the largest illegal waste dump in Europe due to a waste management crisis in the 1990s and 2000s, and surrounding residents have already experienced a significant increase in cancer rates.
OgYe TIL that banks are earning huge profits from betting on food prices. This drives up global food prices, forcing millions around the world into deeper poverty and hunger.
BXEk TIL that Star Trek’s Benedict Cumberbatch forfeited his chances to go to Oxford University and Cambridge University because he discovered “pot, girls and music” and “got lazy” during his last term of the British equivalent of high school.
wonbo TIL starting in 2001, Dell Glover became the "world's leading leaker of pre-release music." He worked at a Universal CD pressing plant & was a member of a file-sharing group called Rabid Neurosis. Over an 11-year period, Rabid Neurosis was responsible for leaking over 20,000 albums.
VBElD TIL that writers die young, with poets tending to have the shortest lifespans compared to novelists, playwrights, and non-fiction writers; the phenomenon is cross-cultural.