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TIL that 84% of vegetarians go back to eating meat or other animal products.

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kOxjW TIL of Wenman Wykeham-Musgrave, who was thrown overboard when his ship was torpedoed and sunk in WW1. He was picked up by another ship, which was also torpedoed and sunk. He then swam to third ship, which was also torpedoed and sunk. He survived the war.
5Vxnp TIL of Anthony Babington's recovery from brain damage. He was so badly wounded in WW2 that his girlfriend left him; he could not talk and was paralyzed on his right side. Babington learned to speak and write again, became a lawyer and judge, and wrote many books.
gMJpL TIL NORAD's annual Santa Tracker program originated from a child misdialing a Santa Claus hotline in 1955, instead calling a U.S. Air Force Colonel at the Continental Air Defense Command.
xGOg TIL Japan has had heated roads for 56 years which use shosetsu (snow melting) pipe system using the heat energy of groundwater to melt snow on roads
wL577 TIL that Tetris is still the no. 1 best selling video game of all time with 1.5x the sales of Minecraft and nearly 2x the sales of Grand Theft Auto V