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TIL that Americans consume an average of 152 pounds of sugar a year each. If the population of the US is 328,000,000 people, that means that the US consumes 25,000,000 tons of sugar a year on average. This number does not include the amount of sugar exported in products to other countries.

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p8AmO TIL the Earth may not be flat but the Solar System is. Aftering seeing a graphic of an asteroid's relative distance to Earth I thought, this must be misleading, as we are not on one plane in space. But we basically are, with margins in single digit degrees.
Lkv4Q TIL about a woman born without a vagina that gave oral sex before a knife fight, was impregnated by a stab wound from the knife, and gave birth to a baby boy via c-section.
yLPp TIL Sleep is the only time the brain has to catch its breath. If it doesn’t, it may drown in its own biological debris–everything from toxic free radicals produced by hard-working fuel cells to spent molecules that are now useless
wo0Go TIL that the animal with the least amount of neurons in their brain are Sponges with 0 neurons, and the animal with the most are Elephants with 257 billion neurons. Humans average at around 100 billion neurons.
Y7L4Z TIL that in the battle of Changping between the state of Qin and Zhao during China's warring states period. After emerging victorious from the battle, Qin's commander - Bai Qi ordered his soldiers to massacre almost all of the Zhao's prisoners of war - some 400.000 of them.