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TIL that over 20 percent of all calories collectively consumed by humanity are from a single food… rice

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E1J5W TIL that due to a loophole in the New Jersey State Constitution women in New Jersey could vote from 1776 to 1807, many years prior to Women's Suffrage in the United States
P1PBV TIL about Ryleyev Kondraty Fodorovich a poet who was sentenced to be hung for this role in the Decembrist Uprising. The rope broke which usually led to a pardon, seen as divine intervention but he said, "In Russia not know how to do anything properly, not even how to make a rope." He was hung again
WkABL TIL a small NZ town worked together on a month-long search for local icon Rodney (a cat) who was unceremoniously dumped after a ten year stint at the local hardware store as greeter and mascot.
bakE TIL the average member of the U.S. Congress makes $174,000 per year and its been that way since 2009
ADWjd TIL that a modern art critic was asked to review some of Adolf Hitler's paintings without being told who painted them. He judged them to be "quite good" while also stating that the artist's depiction of human figures in the paintings revealed his profound disinterest in people.