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TIL more than 34 million people in the US are food insecure

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5V1ZQ TIL during a remodeling project, engineers in China moved an entire bus terminal weighing a total of about 30k tons using hundreds of hydraulic jacks and rolling tracks.
J18gk TIL singer-songwriter James Blunt was a captain during and in the aftermath of the Kosovo War in 1999
gMaL7 TIL That the US Flag Code does not require that a US flag that touches the ground be burned but merely to adjust the flag so that it is no longer touching the ground.
4Xko TIL the “Creepy Progeria Guy” From Die Antwoord’s “Enter the Ninja” died last year. He was the oldest living sufferer of Progeria.
JP94 TIL Jeanne de Clisson, a Frenchwoman whose husband was beheaded for treason, swore revenge and sold her family lands to buy 3 warships. For the next 13 years she went on a pirating binge, targeting King Philip VI’s ships, & personally beheading French noblemen she captured with an axe.