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TIL human beings invented bread before they invented farming

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R7Lkj TIL About Rachel Corrie, an American Peace Activist that was killed by Israeli Defense Forces when they were bulldozing Palestinian homes
69y77 TIL Joel Tenenbaum was successfully sued by the major music labels for illegally downloading and sharing 30 of their songs. A jury ordered him to pay $675,000 (or $22,000 per song), which led to him file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2015, with a judge discharging the $675,000 judgment in 2016.
aGWM TIL after Sports Illustrated published its “Bag It, Michael” cover story about his lackluster baseball career in 1994, Michael Jordan cut off all official communication with the magazine, even to this day
KRB4 TIL the use of sunscreen can cause coral bleaching; the main component of sunscreen, titanium dioxide, forms hydrogen peroxide, OH- and superoxides (O2-) in water, all of which contribute to coral bleaching. 10% of bleached coral is estimated to have been caused by sunscreen alone.
X0roP TIL 18-year-old Chinese soccer player Zhang Cheng participated in the 2007 Special Olympics in Shanghai; he went on to have a professional career in China's top league, winning the league champion title in 2020