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TIL that Pharrell Williams requires a framed picture of Carl Sagan in his dressing room

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XYar TIL IKEA is planning to be 100% energy-neutral by 2020.
x605w TIL in the US there was an "oyster craze" of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Due to advances in oyster farm technology, between 1880 and 1910, as many as 160 million pounds of oysters were harvested a year, and in 1909 the price per pound fell to less than half of beef.
RrX9 TIL The mouth of the Chesapeake Bay is the site of a 35-million year old impact crater and that shaped the bay
epmEJ TIL the Rockefeller Center tree is donated to Habitat for Humanity every year since 2007 to help build a home
yQNbp TIL that the numbers we write today are all upper case. Lower case numbers exist and some include ascenders and descenders