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TIL that one acre of hemp can produce as much paper (including toilet paper!) as four acres of trees.

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45Xa TIL Milk must be offered at every meal if a United States school district wishes to get reimbursement from the federal government.
M7rJm TIL that Lewis Carroll's (author of Alice in Wonderland's) real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, and he was a Professor of Mathematics at Oxford.
wo551 TIL The Vessel in Hudson Yards Manhattan has been temporarily closed due to the large numbers of suicides at the top.
GYOyE TIL The beef scraps that become hamburger meat are mixed communally during processing, and according to a study done in 1998, the average fast-food burger contains meat from 55 different cows.
69myY TIL in the 1990s a man gained an edge on a Spanish casino by recording roulette wheel results & analyzing them with a computer. He was able to predict certain numbers were more likely to hit next. After he won €600K, a legal case against him was unsuccessful; it ruled the casino should fix its wheel