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TIL Video Games Aren't Allowed To Use The "Red Cross" Symbol For Health

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lokDK TIL following his resignation as U.S. President in the midst of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon forged a successful post-presidency as an author and elder statesman, meeting many foreign leaders such as Gorbachev. In 1986 he was ranked by Gallup as one of the ten most admired men in the world.
e0RO4 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)
Z8m7a TIL a California Congressman once shot and killed a waiter, for being refused breakfast because it was too late in the morning. He was acquitted of manslaughter by a sympathetic jury.
YOkW TIL that Ulysses S. Grant’s parents did not attend his wedding because his fiancé’s family owned slaves.
epd4k TIL that in Star Wars Ep. 1 when they first meet Anakin in the shop, in the background there's an empty shell of a protocol droid- the suit is actually the costume for C-3PO from the original series.