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TIL People who drink whole milk are less likely to be fat than those who consume low-fat milk.

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Wv79 TIL Steve Buscemi volunteered at his old firehouse the day after the 9/11 attacks, working twelve-hour shifts for a week, and digging through rubble looking for missing firefighters
W76bL TIL dry pet food became popular during WW2 because canned (tin) foods became rationed
XW5P TIL Clint Eastwood once went on strike before the filming of Sergio Leone’s “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”. His demands? A $250,000 salary, 10% of American profits, and a new Ferrari
VMnZ TIL: A species of locust with a uniquely large swarm density used to plague the United States and Canada until extinction in 1903, leaving western North America with an agricultural advantage over most other areas.
LMJQ TIL a former bonded child labourer from Pakistan escaped the carpet factory at the age of 10, helped free over 3000 kids from slavery, helped bring down Pakistani carpet exports by $34 million, before being murdered at the age of 13.