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TIL That nutrition professor Mark Haub lost 27 pounds on a Twinkie/Dorito/Sugar diet to prove that weight loss is based on caloric intake, and not on nutrition.

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Yp46G TIL It is possible to raise bees in the desert, as they will collect pollen from many different desert plants. They also produce different types of desert honey at different times of year.
5Vorn TIL: William Bailey was a Harvard dropout turned salesman who promoted using radioactive radium as a cure-all. He claimed it can cure mental illness, diabetes, flus, etc. He became wealthy. He died of cancer and when his body was exhumed, it was found to be "ravaged by radiation".
OoeLg TIL Dorian Leigh, one of the first supermodels, was a mechanical engineer who designed airplane wings during WWII
dVv7 TIL Dying is illegal in Longyearbyen, Norway because the town’s small graveyard stopped accepting bodies after discovering the permafrost prevented the bodies from decomposing.
oDMY TIL that Fidel Castro predicted correctly 43 years ago, that the USA will talk to Cuba again when they “have a black president and the world has a latin american pope”.