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

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Zx9Y TIL JFK promised to abolish segregation with the stroke of a pen but after two years of an unfulfilled promise, African Americans in mass sent pens to the White House with letters reading “in case you needed that pen” which led him to sign an order to ban racial discrimination in wages
kEAB TIL that GCHQ complained “…a surprising number of people use webcam conversations to show intimate parts of their body to the other person”, which means staff processing images harvested from millions of webcams around the world keep being faced with genitals.
grWX7 TIL from 1971-1980, Australian songs topped the US Billboard Hot 100 chart 19 times - all of the songs involved the Bee Gees, Helen Reddy or Olivia Newton-John.
4k6yN TIL that during Star Trek filming, censors required actresses not to show their navels. Gene Roddenberry was so irked by this that he made the villains in his 1973 TV movie "Genesis II" identifiable by each having two navels, thus filming each navel he’d previously been forced to censor twice over.
a87QN TIL Chuck Mangione recorded a song called “Peggy Hill” to honor the series.