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TIL That against the almost universal cliche, xxxx doesn't grow on Trees, Oxygen does actually 'grow' on trees, although the bulk on Earth's oxygen is produced in other ways.

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0wN4p TIL Canada has a strategic maple syrup reserve to ensure global supply in case of emergency.
vb4r TIL: Zyklon B is still sold to this day as a pesticide, though under a different trade name.
MekB8 TIL in biblical Israel, on Yom Kippur two goats were chosen and lots were drawn for them. One was sacrificed and the other allowed to escape into the wilderness, symbolically carrying with it the sins of the community. Hence the word "scapegoat".
bkK7 TIL in 1974, The Godfather premiered on NBC over two nights (November 16th and November 18th) from 9pm-11pm. On both nights, at 11pm, New York City’s Municipal Water Authorities had some overflow problems from all the toilets flushing around the same time.
LQ6vQ TIL in 1972 a note left in a locker at JFK Airport demanded payment or bombs would go off on 4 TWA planes leaving that day. Police found one bomb but cleared the other TWA flights. The next day a bomb exploded on a TWA plane at McCarran Airport in Vegas - it was one of the planes cleared to leave NY