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TIL that food waste in America is 80 billion lbs a year

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wgM7 TIL of a piece of music that the Vatican did not want copied down. Doing so was punishable by Excommunication. Mozart memorized it by ear at 14 and the ban was lifted
5o6n TIL that Ruth Lawrence, a child prodigy, passed the Oxford University maths exam at age 10, coming first out of all 530 candidates, she then completed the degree a year early by age 13.
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