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TIL that there is a practice in China for reusing fatbergs from the sewers as cooking oil.

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x6jNB TIL there are five mass extinctions that each destroying 75-95% of all species. Currently we are on the sixth, because of human activities.
jNEDn TIL Papa John's was sued for $250+ million for spam texting people in the middle of the night
D1Vlp TIL that France’s longest land border is with Brazil
R7J84 TIL why we use QWERTY keyboards. Mechanical typewriters would jam if people hit the keys too quickly, so they had to put the common letters far apart from each other and QWERTY was created to slow typists down.
dWjE TIL that the CIA regularly kidnapped people overseas and transferred them to other countries to “torture, detain and interrogate” them outside the law.