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TIL that drinking soft drinks every day increases risk of bone fractures by 50% because they contain lots of phosphorus, which the body will absorb in place of calcium, causing calcium deficiency

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4XEnR TIL when the structural engineer of the World Trade Center was showing the building to some of his colleagues they criticized the strength and durability of the windows he had chosen. He then ran towards a window and bounced right off, demonstrating the faith he had in his choice.
LABV TIL of Japan’s Unit 731, which committed some of the most terrible war crimes in World War II, including human vivisections, innoculation of diseases, and exposure to radiation and poison gas to thousands of innocent Chinese and Russians. These crimes are still denied by the Japanese people today.
d8WrB TIL famous architect Buckminster Fuller proposed using the word "world-round" over "world-wide" because he felt like "world-wide" was anachronistic since the flat-earth belief was antiquated
nekPY TIL, The Russian novel We (1920-21) by Yevgeny Zamyatin is considered one of the grandfathers of the dystopian genre and influenced George Orwell's 1984. "Zamyatin's influence on Orwell is beyond dispute...1984 shares so many features with We that there can be no doubt about its general debt to it."
OWOg TIL that a portuguese soldier who ran out of bullets during the siege of Diu extracted his own teeth and armed his weapon with it, firing against the enemy that was considering he was out of ammunition.