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TIL the world is running out of sand. It is necessary for making glass and concrete which makes it the second most used resource globaly. And since desert sand is mostly unusable, it's not as abundant as most people think.

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ep7b6 TIL the tradition of sending holiday cards started because Henry Cole wanted “a convenient way for him to speak to his many friends and associates without having to draft long, personalized responses to each.”
8eLAX TIL that due to their long association with humans, dogs have evolved the ability to thrive on a starch-rich diet, which would be inadequate for other canid species.
PdVO TIL comedian Daniel Tosh auctioned props from his show, Tosh.O, to raise funds for a fellow comedian Andy Ritchie with a brain tumor, raising $25,000.Tosh then placed a double-or-nothing bet on a Patriots football game and won, ultimately doubling the money he raised for Andy.
b6Xgp TIL: in an effort to catch a bug in Windows Task manager, a developer added his phone number with a message to call his home phone number, the message was left in the release version of windows, leading to multiple people from around the world ringing his home phone number to report the error.
kODwg TIL Tarzan author E.R. Burroughs was the first author to attempt to license a fictional character across multi media platforms - books, comics, radio, movies, etc. Experts told him the various medias would compete against each other and fail. Instead it made him the wealthiest author in the US.