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TIL that the paragraph from "Cambridge University" that you can read despite the "jumbled" order of the letters isn't so jumbled, wasn't from Cambridge, the "researcher" doesn't exist, and the supposed effect doesn't really work.

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wR6J TIL that Nestlé promoted breast milk subsitutes in developing countries which lead to the death of infants
GAwgQ TIL Sir Paul Nurse, English geneticist and Nobel Prize winner, had his application for a US green card rejected due to the short-form UK birth certificate which he submitted not naming his parents. When he applied for a full birth certificate he discovered that his sister was actually his mother.
nZDb TIL crystal meth was invented in Japan
neJ6d TIL of Lorenc Peter Elfred Freuchen was a 6’7” tall walrus-spearing, peg-legged, anti-Semite-clobbering Danish explorer and badass old-school 1900s explorer who escaped certain death by molding his own faeces into a knife and using it to carve through a solid wall of ice.
j697Q TIL about the dead internet theory, an online conspiracy theory that asserts that the internet now consists mainly of bot activity and automatically generated content manipulated by algorithmic curation to intentionally manipulate the population and minimize organic human activity