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TIL that Mineral Weathering (the breakdown of natural Basalt rock) can capture/remove CO2 from the atmosphere for thousands of years.

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QNX6e TIL Kansas City barbecue history originated with Henry Perry. He came from Shelby County, Tennessee, near Memphis, and began serving barbecue in 1908.
6x0J TIL That Racing Club of Argentina had a curse put on their stadium by their fierce rivals by burying 7 dead cats under the pitch in 1967, and oddly enough they stopped winning. It took them 34 years to find all 7, after which they won the championship the same year the last cat was found.
1rA7 TIL that both ‘canceled’ and 'cancelled’ are correct spellings of the word.
5Y01k TIL that a research by Harvard scientist suggested that the earth can sustain a maximum population of 10 billion. As of 2020, we are at est 7.8 Billion, almost close to 80% capacity!
nWvVY TIL that one can tell by the ears of chickens what color the eggs they lay. Chickens' ears are actually earlobes, which are flaps of skin under the ear canal that lie just behind the eyes. In most cases, hens with white earlobes also lay white eggs and hens with red earlobes produce brown eggshells.