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TIL more salt is used for de-icing roads (8% of global manufactured salt) than for human consumption (6%).

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jMxn TIL that there are no skyscrapers in Los Angeles with spires or antennas on top because the local building code requires all buildings over 75 ft have an emergency helipad
Zg7p TIL Only 0.03% of high school basketball players make it to the NBA, and only 0.003% play at that level for longer than 4 years.
Y7jGB TIL that there is a black honey bee species named Vulture Bee which derives honey-like substance from rotting meat
78b9L TIL that Michael Jackson died while Glastonbury Festival was taking place in the UK. Within hours, souvenir shops around the site had begun selling T-shirts with "I was at Glasto 09 when Jacko died" printed on them.
GAJXJ TIL That the theoretical black dwarf star is expected to be able to live for up to 10 to the power of 32000 years, meaning that when they go supernova may make it the last transient to occur before the heat death of the universe.