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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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k6yg TIL that the word ‘Bookkeeper’, and its variations, is the only unhyphenated word to contain 3 consecutive double letters
epkKD TIL that a slice of pizza contains a single serving of vegetable.
e0ajg TIL beavers have orange teeth because they are made of iron instead of magnesium like other rodents. The iron causes the orange colouring in beavers’ teeth, makes the teeth stronger against mechanical stress, and makes them more resistant to acid.
9YrPp TIL of Jolabokaflod, a Christmas Eve tradition in Iceland where friends and family get together to exchange books and then they all read them together while eating chocolate and drinking cocoa.
0dgvp TIL in 2016, after being arrested, a florida man bit off his own fingertips to prevent the police from taking his prints. For this, he was charged with evidence tampering.