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TIL that Fight Club was a major disappointment at the box office in 1999 and received mixed reviews from critics.

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grrgb TIL: Mark Shepard took a degraded corn farm and turned it into a biodiverse, nutritionally dense, habitat-rich high-yield farm using regenerative agriculture which uses no chemical inputs, builds topsoil faster than previously thought possible, and outperforms conventional and organic agriculture.
OoJeR TIL astronauts need to have good teeth because the acceleration forces and vibrations during a flight into space can be very strong.
PKvG TIL the Oriental Hornet’s exoskeleton has the ability to convert solar energy into electricity
X0p4j TIL when Arthur Ashe faced Jimmy Connors in ‘75 Wimbledon, he was also being sued for $3M by Connors bc Ashe called Connors “unpatriotic “ for ducking Davis Cup. Ashe came to the match wearing a Davis Cup sweatshirt that was emblazoned “USA”. Ashe won the match & Connors dropped the lawsuit.
Rlja TIL the U.S. Army Soldier’s Creed was changed in 2003 to remove the part of never doing anything that will “disgrace my uniform, my unit, or my country”