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TIL that almost half of America’s food goes to waste

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p8mee TIL About the Airline Employee Who Told the Passengers, Over the Plane's PA As the Plane Was Reaching the Gate, That He was Was Fed Up and Quitting, Pulled the Plane's Emergency Slide, Slid Down Holding Beers and Ran. When the Cops Caught Up To Him, the Then Ex-Employee Was Having Sex At Home.
wLaVM TIL that despite Australia being known for deadly venomous variants of spiders such as the Funnelweb and Redback; nobody has died from a spider bite in the entire country since 1981; largely thanks to antivenoms
WBv4 TIL Rabbits have nearly 360° panoramic vision, allowing them to detect predators from all directions. They can see everything behind them and only have a small blind-spot in front of their nose.
YpDGP TIL of Ham, the chimp who was the first hominid in space, trained by NASA to operate a capsule in space. His trainer described the moment he was recovered from his capsule following the project – “I have never seen such terror on a chimp’s face”
7rdgP TIL the architects of the 2005 de Young museum in San Francisco hoped the building’s copper facade would have turned green by now, like the Statue of Liberty, but new estimates give it 50 years.