› added 2 years ago

100

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

Read more annualreviews.org

via reddit.com

oB4aK TIL Benjamin Franklin left the cities of Boston and Philadelphia $2,000 in his will, but they couldn't draw the full balance for 200 years. In 1990, the cities received $6.5 million.
Vxnm TIL The Eagles’ “Hotel California” was written to be a Twilight Zone styled metaphor for L.A. and Beverly Hills and their strange inhabitants. The steely knives were a reference to Steely Dan, who inspired the band to be bold with their lyrics.
OG6yY TIL that in 1985, a Yugoslavian farmer had a bottle inserted in his anus which broke and blamed it on two men of a minority group which gaine widespread coverage. Despite later testimony revealing that the wound was self-inflicted, the incident played a role in the future breakup of Yugoslavia.
8YA4 TIL that License to Kill (a James Bond film) was originally titled License Revoked; the name was changed as too many people didn’t know the definition of ‘revoked’.
5Ymn TIL there is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.