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TIL that North Koreans eat 375 calories a day

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gMgaL TIL that François-Marie Arouet derived his pen name 'Voltaire' from a Latin anagram of "The Young Arouet."
4Xwja TIL that several former Nazis, including Adolf Heusinger, who served as acting Chief of Staff of the Army for Nazi Germany, and Johannes Steinhoff, who was one of the highest scoring Luftwaffe pilots, took high level positions within NATO after World War II.
QwJX TIL that The Fat Duck, a Michellin three-star restaurant in England, employs forty-two chefs. One for each customer.
OGEpe TIL about the Schäffer affair - in 1815, German doctor Georg Anton Schäffer was sent by the Russian-American Company to retrieve cargo from a ship that had run aground on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Instead, he tried organizing the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
j04p TIL of a Hepatitis A outbreak at 2 Subway locations in Seattle. The staff weren’t washing their hands properly or using gloves, thus spreading infected fecal matter. One victim, a 6 yr old boy, suffered acute liver failure and required a liver transplant. He was awarded $10 million out of court.