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TIL that so many people were killed in the Battle of Changping which lasted from 262-260 BC that the bones of the dead were used to make fertilizer in the 1970s

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mkwo TIL the scene in The Shawshank Redemption where Morgan Freeman is pitching a baseball took 9 hours to shoot. He pitched it for the entire 9 hours without a single word of complaint and showed up for work the next day with his arm in a sling.
DGAV TIL A French bee-keeper trained his bees to consume cannabis resin, thereby producing all-natural (rather than infused) cannabis honey.
0d71R TIL unsolved murders aren't an occasional thing in the US, only around half of murders were solved in the past few years (even fewer are solved in some big cities)
4XdAw TIL that Norman Borlaug, developed new strains of crops which yielded 4x as much food. He is said to have saved the lives of over a billion people, making him one of the most influential men in human history.
v14XK TIL that Avatar The Last Airbender’s episode, “Lake Laogai” was inspired by China’s “Laogai System” in the 1950s. The Communist Party detained those deemed disruptive to political stability to transform them to conform to socialist ideals through forced labor and political indoctrination.