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TIL Japan grows less than 40% of the food it needs to feed its citizens

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ZpW1R TIL a man was awarded $412 million against a men's health clinic that misdiagnosed him with erectile dysfunction & unnecessarily gave him 3 penile injections a week to treat it, which caused irreversible damage. It's the largest amount ever awarded by a jury in the US in a medical malpractice case.
aJwy TIL that the episode “Hush” from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which is known for its lack of dialogue, was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series.
w601 TIL that the Boeing factory in Washington is so big that when it was first built clouds formed near the ceiling.
gDAD TIL that after being called a nerd on the internet by John Anderson, Russell Tavares got in his car, drove 1,300 miles, and burned down Anderson’s trailer.
VBw84 TIL that Fort Douaumont, the largest and most important fort in the city of Verdun’s defence system during World War I, fell to a force of 98 Germans in 3 days in February 1916. It took the French army 302 days, and an estimated 100,000 casualties to retake it.