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TIL 84% of Vegetarians & Vegans go back to eating meat.

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98lQ TIL that a German knight named Gotz von Berlichingen lost his hand in 1504, and had it replaced with a mechanical iron prosthetic. It was capable of grasping everything from a sword to a feather pen.
PYlKJ TIL that "Dora the Explorer" is a pun on the Spanish word for explorer: "exploradora"
7rbQb TIL that before 2005 at Washington Reagan National Airport, 30 minutes prior to landing or following takeoff, passengers were required to remain seated. If anyone stood up, the aircraft was to be diverted to Dulles under military escort and the person standing would be detained and questioned
8xJL TIL that in lieu of money, Toyota donated efficiency to the Food Bank of NYC. Their experts cut wait times in a Harlem soup kitchen from 90 minutes to 18 minutes. In one Brooklyn warehouse, simply changing the size of boxes allowed workers to cut packing time from 3 minutes to just 11 seconds.
gMo47 TIL: Norman Ernest Borlaug saved over a billion lives through improvements in farming