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TIL Sand is a non-renewable resource and the world is running out of it. The construction industry alone uses billions of tonnes of it every year

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e0yk4 TIL in the Spawn comic book, Marvel and DC superheroes are imprisoned in Hell with their creators, making a meta-commentary on corporate vs indie publishers
a8gZo TIL that Steve Kerr named his son Nick
M77EA TIL a failed marketing gimmick by Marlboro killed and injured multiple people in Poland. Sales reps. would distribute free cigarettes and light them with easy-lit matchsticks. The matchsticks were lit by pretty much anything they touched and caused a deadly car fire on one occasion.
6EWWZ TIL Mohammed Salameh, rented a van that he exploded in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. He then tried 3 times to get his deposit back on the van. This led to his arrest.
akA9 TIL in 2013, scientists sequenced genome of a horse that had been kept frozen for the last 700,000 years in permafrost in at Thistle Creek, Yukon, Canada