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TIL: Sugar used to be sold in loaves, and you’d cut it with something called “sugar nips”

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Wmv9 TIL the sugar industry paid to play down the link between sugar and heart disease while falsely promoting saturated fat as the culprit. Documents discovered by a researcher at UCSF show how decades of misinformation shaped improper nutritional advice and caused the rise of heart disease in America.
69gGJ TIL 10-15% of people surveyed had sexual contact with a sibling, 75% was deemed not exploitative. As published in Archives of Sexual Behavior.
DvVD TIL during the 2008 world hops shortage, the Samuel Adams brewery shared 20,000 pounds of their excess hops with 108 different craft breweries, at cost, to help prevent them from going out of business.
MeGVK TIL That the Seinfeld theme is redo for every episode to mach the pacing of his monologue
1aGJ8 TIL of Ben L. Salomon, a dentist in the Battle of Saipan whose field hospital was overrun by the Japanese. He provided cover fire for the wounded to escape and then manned a machine gun for additional cover fire. When his body was found, 98 dead enemy soldiers were piled in front of his position.