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TIL More than 2 billion people eat insects daily.

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84aL TIL Douglas Bader was a legless flying ace (RAF) in WW2 . His success was partly because of his having no legs; pilots pulling high “g-forces” in combat often “blacked out” as the flow of blood from the brain to other body parts, usually the legs. As he had no legs he could remain conscious longer.
oRy0L TIL as Governor, Texas hero Sam Houston withheld funding from the Texas Navy and declined to restock army supplies, aiming to incite a crisis that would lead to the United States annexing Texas.
nWlor TIL that when Mozart died unexpectedly at age 35, rumors began circulating that he was poisoned by his colleague Antonio Salieri. Though proven untrue, the accusations and public belief contributed to nervous breakdowns later in Salieri's life.
pmZN TIL that Target Corporation runs 2 state of the art criminal forensics labs.
jQxX TIL that attaching green LED lights to nets used by small-scale fisherman can reduce the number of green sea turtle deaths by 64 percent. Without affecting the number of fish caught.