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TIL Americans throw away 40% of all their food.

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NX5dE TIL of Charles Hawtrey who starred in the popular and lewd Carry On Films. Hawtrey was frequently drunk, and would swear and rip up the paper of those who asked him for autographs. Even as he lay dying, he threw a vase at a nurse who was a fan.
6OM8 TIL the city of Dallas, Texas has lost every single one of 82 court cases against the same man, Robert Groden, over several decades.
J19l1 TIL that after fighting off a shark while rowing solo across the Atlantic, adventurer John Fairfax wasn’t believed—so he killed another shark and dropped it off at the reporter’s office to prove his story.
6E7Pl TIL Coco Chanel was a confirmed Nazi agent who went under the code name 'Westminster'. She spent most of WW2 in Paris in the Ritz, sleeping with Nazi officers and had direct contact to Himmler and Goebbels.
ZpMyQ TIL that the quasar 3C 273 is so incredibly bright that if it were 36 lightyears away it would appear brighter than the sun in our sky, and is 4 trillion times brighter than our star.