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TIL Swans have more than 20,000 feathers!

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Odme TIL There is an emergency hotline in the US where you can call and listen to Hall and Oates songs
kJ7ed TIL the Sugar Research Foundation (SRF) paid three Harvard scientists $50,000 (in 2016 dollars) to do a 1967 literature review that overlooked the role of sugar in heart disease. SRF set an objective for the review, funded it and reviewed drafts before it was published.
E1L7 TIL on August 12, 1944, the German SS entered the Italian village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema and killed every living thing, including 110 children (the youngest being only 20 days old) and 8 pregnant women, by machine gun and hand grenade. The massacre took 3 hours. Then they set the corpses on fire.