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TIL contemporary hunter gatherers in Tanzania were estimated to have consumed as much as 100 grams of fiber per day.

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xVYlD TIL that spiral staircases were installed in fire stations in the 1800s to stop the horses that pulled the engines going up the stairs when they smelled food cooking.
14MV TIL that the “10000 hours” theory that sheer volume of practice will make you an expert has been debunked.
ANkx4 TIL actor Rick Moranis and Rush's Geddy Lee were school colleagues. That led to Lee singing on Moranis and Dave Thomas' hit single "Take Off" as comedy characters Bob and Doug McKenzie in 1981.
kmjd TIL: A German town was unknowingly built in a meteorite impact crater, and it’s stone buildings contain thousands of tons of micro-diamonds.
OoRx7 TIL about breatharianism: the (false and deadly) believe that humans do not need food or water but can survice on sunlight alone.