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TIL “the average person consumes roughly 20 lbs of (onions) per year”

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BRDx TIL The US consumes 99% of Vicodin in the world.
GA7JN TIL Simeon Stylites lived on top of columns for 37 years. Simeon did this as a form of asceticism because when he lived in a cave people kept making pilgrimages to him and asking him religious questions. Ultimately his column life drew in even bigger crowds who would climb ladders to talk to him.
nWWyG TIL that during a drought in 2019, priests in Bhopal, India wed 2 frogs in order to appease the god of rain, 2 months later the frogs were divorced in order to stop the constant downpour of rain that destroyed over 9,000 homes.
w5PJ TIL the U.S. government used 1,760 Playstation 3’s to build a supercomputer for the Department of Defense. Their reason: It was more cost efficient and “green”.
WkLn4 TIL: UPS uses route optimization software to save nearly $100,000,000 a year in fuel costs, mostly by eliminating left turns whenever possible.