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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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j6o4X TIL Jeffrey Hunter, the original Captain Christopher Pike, died in 1969 never knowing how popular Star Trek would become and how iconic he would be.
REDj TIL that in 2005, an Ethiopian girl was kidnapped and beaten by 7 men until a pride of lions chased her attackers off. The lions then stayed and defended her until help arrived.
kOEmW TIL that a British plan to assassinate Hitler was ultimately called off because they thought keeping him in power would help the war end faster given his terrible decision making and strategy
P1Yw TIL Shaq is working toward his doctorate, with a capstone titled “The Duality of Humor and Aggression in Leadership Styles”
WkmWd TIL White-tailed Eagles kept flying into moving turbine blades at the Smøla wind farm in Norway. An experiment of painting a single blade black on each of two turbines compared to two unpainted turbines found that the bird deaths declined by 70%.