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TIL the world is running out of chocolate, and the world’s top producers predict that by 2030, we will have a chocolate deficit of over 2 million metric tons.

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WkO14 TIL that it was reported in 1987 a person committing suicide with four bullets in his own head, several other suicides were reported with two or more shots in the head, in medical journals
Orva TIL that Claudette Colvin, a 15 year old African American girl, was the unsung hero of the Alabama Bus Boycott and desegregation of public transportation. Before Rosa Parks, Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman, citing that it was her constitutional right.
N7b5N TIL that Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys got an F in his high school Music class for writing what would become their breakout hit "Surfin'". The grade was later changed to an A in 2018 when Wilson was 75.
rRNpx TIL about U-Haul lesbians
yQbXM TIL an estimated 100,000 German Jewish military personnel served in the German Army during World War I, of whom 12,000 were killed in action, and that later on Nazis tried to suppress the Jewish contribution and even tried to blame them for Germany's defeat