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TIL that Wall St. tried to overthrow FDR

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e0KMn TIL that broccoli is a human innovation and a man-made food, being a result of the selective breeding of wild cabbage plants started around the 6th century BC
KY68w TIL about the liking gap, which is that people you meet like you more than you think. Psychologists found that "people systematically underestimated how much their conversation partners liked them and enjoyed their company."
X019P TIL of the Schön scandal, concerning physicist Jan Hendrik Schön, who rose to prominence after a series of breakthroughs with semiconductors that made him in contention for the Nobel prize. It was later discovered that all his research was completely fraudulent.
OGGeg TIL human DNA contains roughly 750Mb of information.
xJv5 TIL Gary Burghoff, who played Radar O'Reilly on MASH, has a visibly deformed left hand, which ironically would have made him unfit for military service. They tried to hide it throughout the series’ run by having Radar hold a clipboard or other hand-obscuring prop in virtually all his scenes