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TIL that it takes approximately 4 litres of water to produce a 1 litre plastic bottle of water

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9P5B TIL it would cost about $30 billion a year to eradicate world hunger, about as much as much as the world spends on the military every eight days.
b6kgQ TIL trauma doesn't only exist in humans-- animals have their behaviour changed by traumatic experiences, too.
NbZ8 TIL: that the “women make 77c on a man’s dollar” stat is obtained by averaging out a random group of men versus a random group of women. When adjusted for age, same career and same experience, women earn about 98c on a man’s dollar.
x6ryw TIL that, in the journals of the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1803-04, William Clark spelled the word "Sioux" in 27 different ways.
pwnQ TIL that the widow of Ray Kroc, who founded McDonald’s, gave National Public Radio $235 million. This is “the largest monetary gift ever to a cultural institution.”