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TIL that Jim and Pam’s proposal scene was the single most expensive shot on the entire series of The Office. It cost $250,000 to film because they had to build a replica of a rest stop and make it rain.

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GY7Q5 TIL soil is not a renewable resource. Soil is 1 of 2 main components of Earth — the other being oceans — where life is active. Human life depends on healthy soil, just like it depends on clean air and clean water, but losses of soil cannot be regained within a lifetime.
EgxLw TIL 108 billion people have lived on Earth. And nearly half, 52 billion, have been killed by mosquitoes
vPlER TIL of Frances Perkins, first woman cabinet member, longest serving Secretary of Labor, and creator of Social Security
kOjj1 TIL that CIA declassified this document that claims that the world is an energy hologram simulation.
gMkp8 TIL that the Life expectancy number we know for the middelages includes the infant mortality, so 13th-century English nobles had 30 year life expectancy at birth, but when they reached the age of 21, they would normaly have a expectancy of 64.