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TIL it's estimated that half of the current world population is alive because we are able to make nitrogen fertilizer at an industrial scale using the method developed by Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch.

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epjxg TIL that cereal company General Mills had an Aeronautical Research Division that produced spy balloons for the American military and the CIA
oB6NW TIL similar to the Komodo Dragon, a Human's bite can cause permanent bone and tissue damage by way of infection due to the bacteria that lives in the mouth
R9y8 TIL that each time a fertile man’s heart beats, he makes 1,500 new sperm.
OGaxR TIL that all hippopotamus in Colombia are descendants of hippopotamus brought in by Pablo Escobar, with their numbers ranging from 80 to 100s in Colombia.
PD8E TIL: There is a 500-year-old Beer Purity Law still in effect today in Germany. It was decreed on April 23, 1516, by Munich’s Duke Wilhelm, protecting the country’s beer drinkers from contaminants, chemicals and any other additives that unsavory merchants might have thought of adding.