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TIL Serbia grows over one-third of the world raspberries

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Ook46 TIL the frontman to Powerman 5000 is the brother of Rob Zombie and was also on the original 90210.
V1nB TIL Sesame Street episode 847 featured Margaret Hamilton reprising her role as the Wicked Witch of the West from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. It scared children so badly that the episode has never been re-aired.
EQYP TIL a private company dumped 100 tonnes of iron sulphate off the coast of Canada to promote the growing of plankton capable of absorbing carbon-dioxide from the air. It is the world’s most significant geoengineering project to date.
GA7LN TIL that barnacles were a major problem to old ships and that the 18th-century British Navy gained a great advantage by covering their ships' hulls with copper to stop the barnacles from growing.
xNV0 TIL that Westervill, OH, was dry for over 70 years, serving its first legal beer in 2006