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TIL adult hippos can’t swim

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grjG7 TIL a SIGNIFICANT portion of Chumbawamba’s discography is sociopolitical folk music
xykB TIL the ‘Type A and Type B personalities’ were conceived from studies that sought to establish a link between proactive personalities and heart disease. Tobacco companies funded the studies & used them to suggest cigarettes only seemed to cause heart disease because smokers were such high achievers
R5Vy8 TIL Metallica‘a first album “Kill ‘Em All” was originally to be titled “Metal Up Your Ass” with a picture of a hand clutching a dagger emerging from a toilet.
R7vA9 TIL Millikan's famous Oil Drop Experiment (1909), was developed with his grad student, Harvey Fletcher. Millian pressured Fletcher into allowing him sole credit, in exchange for Fletcher having sole credit for another paper.
D1enY TIL that the US Food & Drug Administration keeps extending the deadline for the biggest food chains to comply with nearly decade-old federal calorie disclosure laws