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TIL Farmers need 214 liters of water to grow 1 kg of tomatoes. The Dutch use only 4 liters and are the 2nd largest exporter of food in the world.

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dwM9 TIL Benjamin Franklin considered fishing “unprovoked murder” and refused to eat them, until he witnessed smaller fish in cod stomachs on a trip to New York, after which he reasoned “ if you eat one another, I don’t see why I mayn’t eat you…”
O1v6 TIL Dumb people over estimate their abilities. Smart people under estimate their abilities. Dunning-Kruger.
rNmA1 TIL the Vice President of the United States misspelling “potato” was once enough to cause a national scandal.
69BGY TIL That a small cache of Roman coins were found in a ruined castle on Okinawa, Japan during an archaeological excavation in 2016, marking the first time Roman coins were found on the Japanese Islands. The coins depicted Emperor Constantine the Great, who ruled from 306 to 337 AD.
x6o9w TIL that 80 percent of the men born in the Soviet Union in 1923 did not survive World War II