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TIL Americans throw away 40% of all their food.

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b6k9a TIL in 1964, a General Mills employee chopped pieces of Circus Peanuts (banana flavoured-marshmallow candy) into a bowl of cheerios, thus leading to the invention of Lucky Charms cereal.
MeYda TIL Leonardo Da Vinci is credited as being first to correctly explain Earthshine
VM5eB TIL in 2001 an Australian man was successful in getting a patent for inventing the wheel
N7mWJ TIL Charlotte Whitton was a Canadian feminist and mayor of Ottawa. She was the first woman mayor of a major city in Canada, serving from 1951 to 1956 and again from 1960 to 1964. Whitton was a Canadian social policy pioneer, leader and commentator, as well as a journalist and writer.
rR08M TIL: of Brooks Law - if a project is late, adding more people to it will make the project take even longer. The solution to getting the project done faster is to actually remove developers from the project