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TIL Americans throw away 40% of all their food.

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kOkEe TIL that treason is the only crime defined in the United States Constitution, but it is almost never prosecuted.
NAKE TIL that there is no need to drink eight cups of water a day, because they “can be contained in food, alcohol or caffeinated beverages … adding the eight cups of water to everything else you drink will [not] do you any good and it could do you harm”.
4Xgmg TIL that at any given time in Kentucky, there are more barrels of bourbon aging (~5.3 million) than there are people (~4.5 million).
M6VB TIL that the FCC considers 4mbps to be fast enough for hd online streaming
enmJ TIL the first webcam was deployed at Cambridge University computer lab – its sole purpose was to monitor a particular coffee maker and hence avoid wasted trips to an empty pot.