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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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4GPJ TIL Dandelion is called that because it used to be called “dent-de-lioun” - “tooth of the lion” because of the shape of the leaf, NOT the flower’s resemblance to the mane.
9Y7G TIL American juries can nullify a law by ignoring it, and letting the defendant go free.
R7XA4 TIL that on the fourth day of Christmas my true love gave me “colly birds”, aka blackbirds, not “calling birds” until “calling birds” became more popular in the 1970s.
9wVD7 Til 2 out of the 5 top U.S foreign aid recipients since WWII are failed states that no longer exist
do8d TIL Emily Dickinson instructed her sister to burn all her letters after her death. Her sister obeyed but discovered 40 notebooks that she received no instruction on. Inside were the poems that gained Dickinson’s posthumous fame today.