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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.
YpGwB TIL Britney Spears has been under conservatorship for 12 years, her father has legal control over most of her life.
Bjr TIL that the novelist Stephen King said that Professor Umbridge from the Harry Potter series is the “greatest make-believe villain to come along since Hannibal Lecter.”
rEBe TIL that US interrogators tortured an Afghan detainee to death by hanging him by his arms for 4 days and beating his legs so badly they needed amputation. They did this despite most interrogators believing him to be “an innocent man who simply drove his taxi past the American base at the wrong time”
QdZM TIL that in China in 757 during the siege of Suiyang, while they were short of food, the general Zhang Xun ordered his soldiers to kill the civilians in order to feed themselves. At the end of the siege ten months later, 20,000 to 30,000 people were eaten and only 400 were left.