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TIL that excess human food is harmful to wildlife. So we can't just dump all the leftovers into a forest or something and let them do whatever with it, choosing landfills and even poisoning supermarket dumpsters instead...

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6E8Dl TIL that part of George McGovern's initial 1972 platform in his run for president was a payment of $1000 a year to every American citizen
ANM4a TIL that Admiral Spruance and Vice Admiral Mitscher were forbidden from attending the signing of the Japanese surrender at the end of WW2 because Nimitz was worried a spiteful final kamikaze might wipe out the entire Allied Pacific Command
N7Ryb TiL The Soviets Reversed engineered an air to air missle when in 1958 a MiG-17 hit by a American Sidewinder missle survived the impact and returned to its base with the missile still embedded in it.
j610p TIL that the root of the word hysteria is the Greek hystera, meaning uterus, since it was believed that madness and ungovernable emotions were caused by either the wandering or the suffocation of the uterus in the body of a woman
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