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TIL We waste half or more of all the food we produce each year.

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nW6NY TIL 20 years ago, in India, hundreds of women lynched a man akku Yadav in a courtroom when he remorselessly taunted his victims and threatened "to teach them a lesson". He was stabbed at least 70 times with kitchen knives and his penis was cut off.
DQkxj TIL there is only one species of freshwater jellyfish native to North America (Craspedacusta sowerbii). They are harmless to humans.
p8PkQ TIL that doctors will sometimes sew hands into the patient’s abdomen to avoid amputation and allow healing, while avoiding infection and tissue death.
VKa0 TIL in 1924, the first Olympic Winter Games, Canada scored 132 goals and let in 3 in the entire ice hockey competition.
pAk8 TIL of Coffee Flour. Made from Coffee cherries, the discarded fruit surrounding the coffee bean. Gluten free, high in fibre and protein, and produced from a source which is currently being discarded at a rate around 75% of production.