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

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xVKWb TIL that weeks before the end of World War II a group of Russian school children presented a wood replica of the Great Seal of the U.S. to the American ambassador. Hanged up in a study in the ambassador’s residence, it contained a listening device that went undiscovered for 7 years.
yQQEw The vortex at Saturn’s north pole, observed by the Cassini space probe on December 30, 2013.
Wp49 TIL: More people have access to a mobile phone than have access to a toothbrush
GARaj TIL about Elizebeth Smith Friedman, a pioneering female codebreaker who decrypted mob codes during prohibition and busted up Nazi spy rings in South America, yet was robbed of her due credit by J. Edgar Hoover and died in obscurity in 1980, never revealing her immense wartime service.
EgyX TIL Bill Murray was up for the role of Willy Wonka in the Tim Burton’s film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but he didn’t take the role because he doesn’t check his voice mail very often.