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TIL that the Superbowls are havens for sex trafficking.

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5Yxr TIL that the filming of the Lord of the Rings trilogy pumped roughly $200,000,000 into the New Zealand economy.
0wdQj TIL that the U.S. allows foods and ingredients that are banned in other countries such as: synthetic growth hormones, arsenic, food dye, and Olestra
9YQVr TIL that the lethal dose of chocolate for a human is 22 lbs, or 40 Hershey Bars.
VAND TIL that group “brainstorming” doesn’t work – it makes each individual in the group less creative. “[B]rainstorming groups think of far fewer ideas than the same number of people who work alone and later pool their ideas.”
rN5Y4 TIL that in 2002 members of a simulated Mars mission in Utah uncovered an actual dinosaur fossil when on a mock spacewalk