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TIL a young farmer in India has broken the world record rice harvest by 3 tonnes per hectare using only organic methods.

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168E4 TIL the original Marlboro Man, Bob Norris, was never a smoker
XED1r TIL that George C. Scott refused the Academy Award for his portrayal of George Patton on philosophical grounds. His reasoning was that dramatic performances were so unique that to compare them to each other was impossible.
ADJN4 TIL Bea Arthur from the Golden Girls was one of the first members of the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve in WW2, achieving the rank of Staff Sergeant before being honorably discharged.
Yp6aW TIL Kombat is regarded as one of the most iconic Soviet World War II photographs, yet neither the date nor the subject is known with certainty. According to the most widely accepted version, the photograph depicts Aleksei Yeryomenko's counterattack minutes before his death on 12 July 1942.
x6K4o TIL that while Nobody Beats the Wiz was indeed an actual electronics chain in the northeast, the Seinfeld character was not in their real-life commercials. The Seinfeld character was based on Crazy Eddie, another northeast electronics chain.