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TIL that the human body, if eaten, would be 81,500 calories. Based on the recommend daily intake of 2,500 calories, one average human body would feed one person for about one month.

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8e1VZ TIL that in 1985 an Army supply clerk at Fort Carson, Colorado accidentally ordered a $28,000 anchor instead of a $6 lamp due to mistyping the requisition number. Nobody in the supply chain asked why a mechanized unit needed a 10 ton anchor until it arrived.
P1AlV TIL in 2009, for the first time in history, two satellites (Russian and American) collided in space at 26,000 MPH. There was so much debris that people on Earth could see it falling from the sky. One day, residents of Kentucky heard a sonic boom, which NWS confirmed was space debris.
d84rK TIL of Mary Jane Rathbun, an elderly hospital volunteer who became known for baking and distributing cannabis brownies to San Francisco AIDS patients in the 1980's.
pY4p4 TIL that cities in New England often had a plot of land dedicated for people who didn’t own land. They are known as “poor farms”. Some of them still exist today and are established by towns as land that must be used for charitable purposes.
rNN5o Today I learned Obsidian Entertainment (involved in Planescape: Torment, Kotor II, PoE, Fallout series) worked on a prequel game about Snow White and the Seven Dwarves until it was canceled when Disney declared SW 'untouchable'.