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TIL Residential lawns in the US use up about 9 billion gallons of water every day

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JYMLk TIL nonchalant, disheveled, nonplussed, disconsolate, and nonsensical are examples of unpaired words: words that appear to be formed by a prefix and an existing word, but aren't. Chalant, heveled, plussed, consolate, and sensical are not recognized as English words.
yXpX TIL Five officers once volunteered to stand directly under an exploding nuclear bomb. The only non-volunteer was the camera man.
PY5mO TIL that Charles Lindbergh was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor
R5jQ8 TIL the UN estimate for how many land animals were slaughtered by humans in 2022 was 80 billion
xV5G1 TIL that serial killer William Suff used one of his victims as an ingredient in a chili contest and won first place