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TIL the Netherlands is a leader when it comes to food production due to innovations in agricultural techniques which drastically improve efficiency. Growing a kg of tomatoes in the Netherlands uses 9.1L of water (1.1 gallon/lb). The global average is over 210L of water per kg (25.6 gallon/lb)

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rNenx TIL that the longest time between two twins being born is 90 days
wA6Y TIL Eisenhower may have played semi-professional baseball under the assumed name ‘Wilson’ and then lied about it so he would be eligible to play college football at West Point. If he had been caught he may have never graduated, achieved a military career, or become President.
4NOa TIL That Lewis and Clark’s sexual relations while traveling often lead to syphilis. The two would treat themselves with mercury to curb the disease, leading to archeologists being able to pinpoint the location of Travelers Rest (campsite) due to the mercury in the soil.
4Nj6 TIL of Anatoliy Golitsyn a KGB agent who defected to the US in 1961. He claimed the Soviets planned a long term deception strategy to lull the West into a false sense of security by appearing to break apart predicting the fall of the Berlin Wall, formation of the EU and financial problems in the US.
nWdb7 TIL the whistleblower of the Olympus Scandal, aka "one of the biggest and longest-running loss-hiding arrangements in Japanese corporate history", was Olympus' own CEO, Michael Christopher Woodford. He was fired after repeatedly questioning suspicious transactions and involving external auditors.