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TIL only about 5% of Americans get their daily recommended value of fiber

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pGGO TIL that companies would have factories in the North Mariana Islands so they could pay Chinese workers $3 an hour to make clothing labeled “Made in the USA” without having to comply with US labor laws. This resulted in hazardous work conditions, forced prostitution & forced abortions on the workers.
p8e5N TIL Slave Bible, an abridged version of the bible made for slaves, in which the enslaved Israelites never left Egypt and lines that condemn slave owners were removed.
W75p8 TIL that in medieval depictions of Moses, he is depicted as having horns, because the Latin word in Exodus ‘cornutam’ can either mean ‘shining’ or ‘horns’. One example is Michaelengo’s Moses in Basilica of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome. The tradition ended around the time of this sculpture.
x6kl5 TIL About The World Ice Theory, a Flat Earth-like pseudo-scientific theory that was popular among Nazis and Hitler himself because it was an alternative to mainstream actual science which they viewed as Jewish and soulless.
7oBO TIL when Janni Schofield was not even a month old, she was able to correctly identify colors. At 1 year old, she could read. At 18 months, she could speak fluently. What her parents originally took for genius turned out to be a mask for something much darker caused by child-onset schizophrenia.