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TIL up to 40% of the United States food supply goes uneaten

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V6M0 TIL, In 2010 General Electric brought in $14,000,000,000 in profit world wide, with over $5,000,000,000 in profit brought from the United States alone, and paid no taxes.
eGvb TIL that Benjamin Lay was an 18th century Quaker vegetarian abolitionist who once kidnapped the child of slaveholders temporarily, to show them how Africans felt when their relatives were sold overseas
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