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TIL China is by far the biggest producer and consumer of potatoes in the world.

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65Q8 TIL there is a museum in North Korea dedicated to remembering a mass murder of communist sympathizers during the Korean War
y1pv TIL In 1953, an Anglican priest founded the Samaritans, the world’s first crisis suicide hotline. He was inspired to do so years previously after serving the funeral of a 14 year old girl who committed suicide because she had begun to menstruate & feared that she had a sexually transmitted disease.
0rOL TIL that the Farmers Almanac has been in publication since 1792. Their predictions are based on 30 year statistical averages and “many longtime Almanac followers claim that our forecasts are 80% to 85% accurate.”
QJpRe TIL that consuming too much lean protein can cause symptoms similar to broad malnutrition in a condition known as protein poisoning, or more colloquially called "rabbit poisoning" due to the first observed cases in frontiersmen who ate nothing but wild rabbits over the winter and developed symptoms.
x6mxg TIL that the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan has a sealed glass vial that is reputed to contain Thomas Edison's last breath. Edison and Ford were longtime friends and the vial was given to Ford by Edison's son.