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TIL Americans waste as much as 40% of their food.

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1aGb8 TIL schizophrenia has been linked to maternal exposure to influenza
9wJLM TIL in 1590 70 people mostly women were killed at the North Berwick Witch Trials because the king was convinced witches attacked his fleet with a storm
N7JB1 TIL: The first-ever solar-powered satellite, Vanguard 1, is "the oldest human-made object still in orbit" (plus some of its launch rocket). Launched in 1958, it stopped talking in 1964 but continues orbiting. The three sats older than it (Sputniks 1 & 2, Explorer 1) are no longer in orbit.
e5R6 TIL That pistachios can spontaneously combust.
nWpV9 TIL that in 1979, an unknown man known as the "Toynbee Tiles" artist began placing mysterious tiles embedded in the streets of cities across the U.S. and South America, featuring cryptic messages about resurrecting the dead on Jupiter.