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TIL in the 1960's the Sugar Industry funded and selectively picked skewed studies that helped blame saturated fat with causing heart disease instead of sugar

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pYr1A TIL a victim of the SS Atlantic wreck was found to be a woman disguised as a man. A great favorite among her shipmates, one remarked "I didn't know Bill was a woman. He took his grog as regular as any of us, & was always begging or stealing tobacco. He was a good fellow, & I'm sorry he was a woman."
jNvnM TIL To prepare for the 2012 London Olympic Games, a city cleanup crew spent 3 months steam cleaning 300,000 pieces of gum off less than 2 miles of street
bAA0 TIL: In the early days of the Space Shuttle program, NASA aimed for 60 launches a year. By the end, the average was only 6.
npBP TIL: the term vagina means “sword holder” in Latin.
mxRjp TIL that the US government used an Atomic Bomb to launch a manhole cover 125,000 mph (201,160 kph), that is the fastest that a man-made object has traveled. It is also said that it beat the Sputnik to space, although that was never confirmed.