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For a while, yes, but you will eventually run into nutritional deficiencies.

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P6YE TIL the tiny island of Nauru became the world’s richest country per capita in the 60s by mining its phosphate reserves. The country blew it on spending & bad investments (e.g.“Leonardo the musical”). It’s now the ~135th richest country, with 40% diabetes rate and a wrecked environment due to mining.
KYoWE TIL: That despite intense behind the scenes actions, Pope Pius XII was resolved not to issue any public pronouncement that took sides in WWII; this first manifested itself in a refusal to explicitly condemn the German invasion of Poland.
5VVnr TIL that in Australia's worst aircraft crash no Australians died. In 1943 the crash of a USAAF B17 Flying Fortress took the lives of 40 US servicemen leaving only one survivor. No other aviation incident in Australia before or since has cost more lives.
LYQ9 TIL about Tilly Smith who, at age 10, helped save her family and hundreds of tourists in Thailand from the 2004 tsunami by recognizing warning signs of a tsunami that she had learned in her geography class two weeks earlier.
eo9g TIL the military has used Silly String to detect trip wires in Iraq. The strands of string go 10-12 feet and are light enough to not set off the tripwire.