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TIL that MSG has received a wrongful bad rap, and likely isn’t dangerous as a food additive.

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a8dRM TIL that when privateer Klaus Störtebeker and his 73-man crew were executed by the city of Hamburg, the executioner was asked if he was tired. He replied he could 'easily execute the whole senate as well,' and was then executed himself.
yQdnJ TIL That at the age of 19, Michael Caine had a near death experience in the Korean War that “formed his character” for the rest of his life. He learned to live every moment as if it where his last and to always look on the bright side of life.
BgZLe TIL: There was another species of human recently found.
a8AgZ TIL on 10 May 1977, Donald J. Smith and his father, Frank J. Smith, of Orlando, Florida, were awarded a patent for their variation of the comb over that conceals baldness by combing long hair in three separate directions.
mQmO TIL in Sid Meier’s Civilisation an underflow glitch caused Ghandi to become a nuclear obsessed warlord