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

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rOvd TIL that an Air Canada flight ran out of fuel at 41,000 feet, and was safely landed at an non-operational airfield in Gimli.
VMQak TIL China has some of the lowest percentages of voluntary organ donors but some of the shortest waiting times for organs because they harvest organs from political prisoners, the marginalized, and executed prisoners.
69QJ7 TIL after the first time Ginevra King rejected F. Scott Fitzgerald, he dropped out of Princeton and enlisted in the army in order to commit suicide-by-combat on the Western front. He hastily wrote and submitted his first book, which launched his career, and was obsessed with her over his entire life
1Q98 TIL nearly 70% of African American children and 60% of Hispanic children do not know how to swim. African-American children drown at a rate nearly three times higher than white children.
wLDGJ TIL that George Orwell, the author of 1984 and Animal Farm, was actually a pseudonym for author Eric Arthur Blair.