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TIL the US wastes an estimated 1.3% of GDP by throwing away 40% of all food

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d9Y8 TIL that the bacteria responsible for the bubonic plague, ‘Yersinia pestis’, spread to humans through fleas by inhibiting the flea’s blood feeding, causing the flea to regurgitate the infected blood into the host’s wound and go on an infectious biting spree in a futile attempt to feed itself.
Z8V1B TIL Honey Bees are not indigenous to North America and were brought over by white settlers.
kmpW TIL that Daryl Davis, a black musician, was able to interview and even befriend many Ku Klux Klan members, and was able to get some of them to leave the Klan.
yOoV TIL Brian May, guitarist for Queen, uses coins, especially the English sixpence, as guitar picks.
O8e7 TIL the Turkish general who enacted the 1997 coup, which freed Turkey from its last Islamist government, was arrested for that “crime” in 2012 by Erdogans government.