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TIL Ikea uses 1% of the world’s wood supply to make its furniture

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P1PQE TIL there is a straight pride flag
rjye Til: Gaylord Perry, a Major League Baseball played with the giants for 7 years and never hit a home run. The giants manager joked with reporters saying, “They’ll put a man on the moon before Perry hits a home run.” On July 20, 1969, Gaylord Perry hit a home run
LLZ TIL that when Rudolph Diesel produced his engine in 1896, he assumed that it would run off of vegetable and seed oils - especially hemp.
AdOw TIL UFC fighter Meisha Tate was vacationing with her boyfriend and his parents when his mother suffered an asthma attack while snorkeling and almost drowned. Unable to perform CPR due to a closed throat, Meisha saved her by repeatedly taking puffs from an asthma inhaler and blowing it into her lungs
p8JeQ TIL modern Polaroid film is less technologically advanced than traditional Polaroid film, and that Polaroid photos are now worse than they used to be