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TIL Margot Kidder (Lois Lane from the original Superman) had a manic breakdown after the laptop she was using to write her autobiography crashed. She disappeared for four days

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5VAoP TIL that the USAF accidentally detonated a dirty bomb by San Francisco, through sheer incompetence.
JYXNB TIL that construction of the Washington Monument was paused for twenty years between 1859 and 1879. The bottom third of the monument is slightly lighter than the rest because marble from different quarries was used after construction resumed.
yQOXe TIL modern studies do not show any association between saturated fat and higher risk of death for any reason (cardiovascular disease, heart attack, stroke, etc.) but they do show up to a 34% increase in death associated with unsaturated industrial plant oil-based fats such as margarine
d8obj TIL your brain is only 2% of your body mass but burns around 20% of your daily calories. The expensive-tissue hypothesis suggests increased complexity of the human brain has increased its energy requirements.
yQADM TIL There are almost no mosquitoes in Disney World (Florida) even though it is in a swampy territory abundant with bugs. They have a sophisticated mosquito surveillance program to try and eliminate them quickly.