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TIL 95% of Americans don't get the minimum recommended amount of fiber

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6EemQ TIL Archer doesn't have a team of writers; the only writer is the creator, Adam Reed.
M7LyB TIL of the Downs-Thomson Paradox, which states that congestion will slow car traffic down until it matches the speed of public transit. Road expansions at the cost of public transit can therefore lead to worse car traffic.
69w5Q TIL there is a sport where competitors race up lubricated stairs.
d5wK TIL when a Pediatrician was involved in a fiery car wreck and was pinned in his burning car, among the fire rescue crew that arrived to save him was a man whose life the doctor had saved 30 years earlier as an infant.
yV4Ww TIL that in 1988, Dave Mustaine, Megadeth’s frontman, drunkenly dedicated a performance of the Sex Pistols song “Anarchy in the U.K.” to the IRA while performing in Antrim, Northern Island. This caused a riot between Irish Nationalists and Unionists, and the band had to flee in a bulletproof bus.