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TIL that the world is facing a global sand crisis because sand and gravel mining greatly exceeds natural renewal rate.

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dB4K TIL that all tweets you will ever send are archived to the library of congress.
Oo9mR TIL the creative director of the NASA Voyager Golden Record project, Ann Druyan, recorded her brain waves in 1977 when she fell in love with Carl Sagan to be sent into interstellar space with the Voyager Spacecrafts
nep9o TIL that three people stole $18 million dollars worth of Maple Syrup in Quebec. This was over the course of about a year.
X0XXj TIL that the oldest shipyard that's still operating is the Haliç(Golden Horn) Shipyard of Turkey, Istanbul. Established in 1455 under the name of Imperial Arsenal.
p8X04 TIL that a micro-animal known as Tardigrade has survived all five mass extinction events.It can live in boiling water, solid ice and endure the intense radiation of space.It can survive a decade in a desert without a drop of water to drink as well as in the deepest trenches of the sea.