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TIL that some food scraps, including banana peels, orange peels, and pistachio shells, can take months to years to decompose outdoors, depending on the environment.

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makM TIL in the most extensive case of health care billing fraud in US Department of Justice history, in which 243 people were busted for fraudulent billing to the tune of $712M, one Doctor had billed for 205 hours in a single day.
VM9jk TIL grandmaster chess players can burn 3,000 calories a day during tournaments, just because their brains are being used so much.
ADm4w TIL The Biggest Upset in Sports History happened when the Racehorse Man-O-War lost to a horse coincidentally named "Upset" at 100-1 odds
VLeG TIL that in Finland, traffic fines are proportionate to the latest available data on an offender’s income. In October 2001, Anssi Vanjoki (at the time a director at Nokia) was ordered to pay a fine of 116,000 euros after being caught driving at 75 km/h in a 50km/h zone.
5Y59P TIL Troy Leon Gregg, a death row inmate in Georgia, escaped the night before his execution only to be killed in a bar fight that very same night.