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TIL That there are Long-time nuclear waste warning messages to inform future humans with a simple drawing

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vPDBD TIL that 75% of the world’s food is generated from only 12 plants and 5 animal species.
1beO TIL baseball catcher Dave Bresnahan threw a potato to deceive a baserunner into being tagged by the ball. The league banned him but fan-support forced the club to retire his number. At his retirement ceremony he said “Gehrig played 2130 games & hit 340; all I had to do was bat .140 & throw a potato”
ANDx4 TIL During the trial of Robert James (1936), one of the rattlesnakes used to murder his wife escaped into the courtroom causing hysteria. James ultimately was convicted of first-degree murder and ended up being the last man hanged in California.
DQNoD TIL the Michelin man is actually called Bibendum owning to the Latin slogan ‘Nunc est bibendum’ = “Now is the time to drink”
rR840 TIL "Seven Great Singing Stars" dominated the Chinese pop music industry in the 1930s and 1940s, which was centered in Shanghai. After 1949, the Communist Party of China denounced Shanghai popular music as Yellow Music, a form of pornography