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TIL that there is little proof that antioxidants are actually healthy [Harvard School of Public Health].

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bOQQ TIL Dave Chappelle converted to Islam in 1998. He said, “I don’t normally talk about my religion publicly because I don’t want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing”
QJLOX TIL Jackie Coogan, the silent film child actor who was famously exploited by his parents for his earnings, found renewed screen success later in life playing Uncle Fester on the Addams Family
kOJVm TIL Africville was a black community in Halifax dating from 1840s but razed in the mid-1960s and its 400 residents were relocated as part of a redevelopment plan. Moving Africvillers into the city was seen by the government as a way to integrate them and meet their needs
0dw5y TIL It costs $1 Million-$2 Million per mile to build a railroad
mQ6Y TIL that so many Mongolians have studied at Colorado universities that the street the US Embassy to Mongolia is on was renamed “Denver Place”.