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TIL that Japan uses 24 billion pairs of disposable chopsticks per year. China uses 45 billion. That’s 25 million trees per year.

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mBQE TIL of former California Arson Investigator John Orr, a serial arsonist who likely set over 2000 fires over a ten year period.
4Xe4X TIL of a woman known as Patient S.M, who has no amygdala, which is the part of the brain responsible for fear. As a result she is unable to feel fear or read negative social cues, and doesn't understand personal space. The only time she ever felt fear is when a test was held replicating suffocation.
j6ZNX TIL about Bashir Ahmad, an impoverished Pakistani camel cart driver, who, on 20 May 1961, met with the then US vice-president Lyndon B Johnson, and accepted an invitation to come to America.
wLm5Y TIL the winner of the discuss throw in the first modern Olympics had never seen a proper discuss until he arrived in Athens. The version he commissioned to train with was 25 pounds heavier than the competition model because he based it solely on images from an ancient vase.
nvxG TIL hemp was banned in the 1930’s (U.S.) due to it being competitive with, at the time, newly founded synthetics fibre and plastic industries.