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TIL that only 13% of Americans eat enough vegetables, while 71% eat excessive amounts of saturated fat.

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4XlBR TIL most of the Federalist Papers (51 out of 85) that defended the the United States Constitution and lead to its ratification were written by Alexander Hamilton when he was 30 year old. He was also one of the five members of the committee that made the final draft of the original constitution.
LkQdP TIL Security company Cloudflare uses a camera pointed at a wall of 100 lava lamps to generate the random numbers used to encrypt approximately 10% of all internet traffic
d7VE TIL that the Times said in 2013 that it does not publish letters from climate change deniers: “Saying ‘there’s no sign humans have caused climate change’ is not stating an opinion, it’s asserting a factual inaccuracy’ that doesn’t belong in our pages.”
VBQYD TIL Abraham Lincoln owned a patent for inventing a device that helped lift river boats over obstructions
j6Xgj TIL Visual fixation is the ability to maintain your gaze on a single location. It's a short list of the species that we have confirmed have this ability; cats are on it, but dogs aren't.