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TIL that rice fields are flooded primarily for weed control, not because it provides optimal growing conditions for the rice plants, as I had always presumed.

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9YwEm TIL that unlike much of its competition, Family Video owns the real estate housing their stores, helping them to avoid unsuccessful lease negotiations that led to the demise of Blockbuster and Movie Gallery, which includes Hollywood Video. Family Video is now the largest rental chain in the U.S.
ANJEo TIL about the Echuya Batwa, a people native to Uganda's Impenetrable Forest. In 1991, they were evicted from their lands to make way for a nature reserve to protect the gorillas that live there. Today, they suffer from a life expectancy of only 28 and nearly half of all children don't live to five.
4L5J TIL Richard Brooker, the first actor to wear the iconic hockey mask in the third Friday the 13th movie, is also responsible for directing Bill Nye the Science Guy.
vx0r TIL that, in order to increase productivity, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos employs a “two pizza” rule for his business meetings: he never has a meeting where two pizzas isn’t enough to feed everyone in attendance.
OGkdR TIL that a neutron star can have a mass similar to our Sun but be only about 30 km across. One such neutron star spins at an incredible 43,000 rpm, rotating 716 times each second. This makes it one of the fastest-spinning objects in the universe.