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TIL that over 20 percent of all calories collectively consumed by humanity are from a single food… rice

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PYAQw TIL about The Man in the Moone, a 1638 novel that is considered by some to be one of the first works of science fiction. In it, a Spaniard ends up on the moon after fleeing Spain and harnessing some wild swans who fly him up to it. He then meets the “Lunars”-a people who inhabit the moon.
mxZNo TIL of the ‘Wheaton Bandit’ who robbed 16 banks in the mid 2000s, but had the statute of limitations expire on his crimes
xVxZg TIL that the Wizard of Oz is just the first of a series of 14 books by l. Frank Baum.
N7e6e TIL Socrates condemned the use of the written word because he thought it would cause people to be forgetful.
a86Pb TIL about Hans Redl, who lost his left arm in World War II in 1943. He went on to compete in the Wimbledon tennis championships after the war, advancing to the fourth round.