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TIL 90% of the world's star anise crop is used for making Tamiflu

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5Vn4D TIL that the term 'intellectual' (as in, the noun, 'an intellectual') was coined to describe the debates surrounding the Dreyfus Affair, the famous scandal of a Jewish French soldier falsely convicted of treason
Ab1x TIL Jon Stewart and his wife founded an animal sanctuary in New Jersey to rescue abused factory farm animals
wLyK1 TIL: Most Mars rovers use the same operating system as some Toshiba photocopiers, called VxWorks; it is also used in many Industrial robots, Aviation systems, Medical equipment, and some Consumer electronics .
yOA8 TIL A 12 year old boy won the right to wear a t-shirt saying “Homosexuality is a sin, Islam is a lie, Abortion is murder. Some issues are just black and white” to his school. The school then told him not to wear the t-shirt, leading to his parents suing the school. The parents won.
neger TIL ‘Double Rainbow Guy' Paul Vasquez has died :(