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TIL the average American eats about 117 pounds of potatoes a year

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W1Ld TIL that a generator exists that runs on urine. It can provide electricity for six hours on one liter of urine. The generator was invented by four African school girls.
mgAP TIL a World’s Biggest Liar is an annual competition for telling lies, held in Cumbria, England. Politicians and lawyers are not allowed to enter the competition, because “they are judged to be too skilled at telling porkies”.
EgGVo TIL that the plane crash at the end of season 2 of Breaking Bad was inspired by a real-life 1986 mid-air collision, in which the air-traffic controller who was directing air traffic at the time of the accident was named Walter White
pVL4 TIL that Abraham Lincoln was such a good wrestler that he was inducted in the national wrestling hall of fame
b6Ra TIL St Sebastian, a Christian saint, is often depicted in art during his death, with arrows impaling his body. Michael Richards, an artist, has a piece where he cast a mold of himself and, instead of arrows, had planes flying into his body. Richards died on the 92nd floor of Tower One on 9/11