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TIL that the idea that people harvest Adrenochrome from humans, subject of a wide-spread conspiracy theory, originated in Hunter S. Thompson's novel "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"

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oBJYL TIL That the average adult makes 35,000 decisions every day, with over 200 decisions made about food.
Xlr8 TIL Bird populations are plummeting, and cats alone are responsible for killing billions of birds every year in the lower 48 states.
OogvR TIL Jules Verne's shelved 1863 novel "Paris in the Twentieth Century" predicted gas-powered cars, fax machines, electric street lighting, maglev trains, the record industry, the internet. His publisher deemed it pessimistic and lackluster. It was discovered in 1989 and published 5 years later.
vMV8 TIL that during the Great Depression, people used small “coins” worth fractions of a cent to avoid paying too much extra sales tax on small purchases due to rounding.
yVYnv TIL that the village of Capernaum, which was allegedly the base for Jesus' ministry in Galilee, has been a ruin since the 11th century, and is today abandoned except for a Greek Orthodox Church built in 1931.