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TIL Americans throw away 40% of all their food.

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GY654 TIL a lawsuit between Gilbert O'Sullivan and Biz Markie over a sampling of "Alone Again" led to the requirement of licensing and fees to sample parts of song, which in turn made it prohibitively expensive to sample multiple songs into a new piece, which had been a common practice in hip hop
65JY TIL The manliest of all men was a French commander named Marshal Ney, who directed his own execution
KOAWw TIL Officials in Portland, Ore., drained 8 million gallons of water from a reservoir in 2011 because a buzzed 21-year-old peed in it.
lolNB TIL that a war between Greece and Bulgaria that killed a total of 171 people, began when a Greek soldier accidentally crossed the border chasing his runaway dog.
QJOwp TIL There is a 1910 film version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein that was produced by Thomas Edison