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jNR8X TIL over 90% of the world's natural rubber is grown in Southeast Asia and a fast spreading disease called "Rubber Tree Blight" that once wiped out 90% of the world's supply of rubber in Brazil, could do the same in SEA, collapsing the entire world's economy, backtracking quality of life 130 years.
GYOXQ TIL The Toba catastrophe theory that states human population was bottle-necked about 70K years ago due to a super massive volcanic eruption. Humanity may have dwindled to less than 10K individuals and many other animal species were similarly affected.
a8Lmo TIL about Iapetus, one of Saturn's moons that has a 12m (20km) high ridge of mountains running almost perfectly along the entire equator, dividing the moon into a bright side and a dark side
9Qrp TIL There is a type of almost-perfectly-square bacteria that lives in extremely salty lakes around the world.
wDDE TIL For ‘Wayne’s World’ Mike Myers demanded to use the song 'Bohemian Rhapsody’ in the car scene instead of a Guns n’ Roses song, even threatening to quit the production if they didn’t use it.