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TIL 75% of food consumed worldwide is made by only 6 companies

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R5k5a TIL Paul Winchell was a comedian/ventriloquist who invented one of the earliest artificial hearts. Winchell also invented a flameless cigarette lighter, a garter belt without visible lines, and owned over 30 patents.
x65o5 TIL about the Liking Gap. Most people underestimate how much other people actually like them.
M7BjV TIL about the 1937 marriage of 22-year-old Charlie Johns and 9-year-old Eunice Winstead, causing national attention after an article was written in Life magazine. It led to the state of Tennessee introducing a new law setting the minimum marriage age as 14. Other US jurisdictions followed similarly.
695Ol TIL that The Smallest Computer in the World Fits On a Grain of Rice
QNl8M TIL our bodies cannot digest corn, this is why we always see them in our stool