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TIL Ali G’s ”real” name is Alistair Leslie Graham

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M6rV TIL the FDA prohibits products from being packed in containers deceptively larger than what they contain. (Potato chips are exempt because the extra air protects them from being crushed.)
KLoR TIL The 72 virgins promised to male believers are each 90 ft tall, 10.5ft wide, and have skin that is transparent to the bone marrow.
e0dLb TIL that locusts, such as those mentioned in the Bible, are grasshoppers, and I am thirty years old.
E6Xx TIL 24 out of the 56 countries and states of Africa are in a war or military conflict
j6V1v TIL the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine was given to Julius Wagner-Jauregg for curing mental illness by giving patients malaria. (He was, in fact, curing them of syphilis because the malaria fevers are so high that they kill the bacteria. The malaria was subsequently cured with quinine.)