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About a third of our planet’s food goes to waste. That’s enough food to feed the nearly 800 million people going hungry and then some.

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v1WL4 Today I learned that the State of Michigan's anthem, "My Michigan" cannot be played without paying royalties until 2032, because the state government never purchased the rights to the song, and the song is still copyright protected.
R7XDQ TIL gin and tonic was invented to make antimalarials more palatable
grAo7 TIL that "Total Eclipse of the Heart," performed by Bonnie Tyler, was originally titled "Vampires in Love." Songwriter Jim Steinman wrote it while working on a musical of Nosferatu, with lyrics about the power of darkness and love's place in the dark.
9YoJm TIL about "exploding caskets" being a problem in mausoleums. The process of decay builds up gasses that can cause a literal explosion and knock down the marble front of a crypt.
GAw6E TIL that Edgar Allan Poe wrote his first detective stories after trying to debunk a famous chess-playing "robot" called The Mechanical Turk in 1836. Poe asserted that a mechanical chess player would play perfectly, but noticed that the Turk occasionally erred, and therefore suspected its creation.