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TIL within one year a single acre of maggots can produce more protein than 3,000 acres of cattle or 130 acres of soybeans. That's equal to 130,000 pounds of protein per year and greater than the per-acre protein yield of cattle (about 40 pounds), soybeans (950 pounds) or chickens (1,800 pounds)

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8dLa TIL two Australians fooled officials into letting them play in an international golf tournament at North Korea’s only golf course. For five days they were treated as honored guests and taken on official visits around Pyongyang before being exposed as frauds due to their poor golfing skills.
Wk158 TIL Charles Dickens wrote the popular Christmas classic, "A Christmas Carol," in six weeks. Dickens was a passionate advocate of the poor and defenseless who experienced his own hardship, at twelve, when his parents and younger brothers were put in debtors’ jail and he had to work off their debts.
p87vO TIL tech companies in China hire "programming cheerleaders", pretty women that cheer up the programmers as they work at their desk. They need to know how to put on makeup, to be taller than 5'2, to have a "gentle voice", and a "contagious laugh".
j0BN TIL that the Spain National Anthem has no official lyrics because they could not find an agreement on which ones to use.
Gnw4 TIL that Thanksgiving was made a national holiday because one woman obsessively campaigned to make it so until eventually President Lincoln agreed. The same woman also wrote “Mary had a little lamb” and lobbied for the creation of the Bunker Hill memorial.