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TIL: That orange-fleshed sweetpotato is good for healthy babies

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jNrWp TIL Due to work to protect the Leaning tower of Pisa, The structure has started to lean less and straighten out.
lK7N TIL that Ben Franklin would ask his rivals to do him favors, and through cognitive dissonance they would end up liking him more and doing him more favors because of it. This psychological finding is pinned “The Ben Franklin Effect”
XEZEQ TIL about Victoria Woodhull, the traveling psychic that gave American tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt advice on investing in the gold market. Following her advice, Vanderbilt made a profit of $1.3 million, withdrawing just before the gold market crash of Black Friday on September 24, 1869.
5ENn TIL when an Indian law required bars to be at least 500m from certain roads, one bar built a maze in front of its entrance to triple the walking distance from the door to the street. Regulators accepted this solution.
E1Kx TIL In 1941-42, during ‘Operation Barbarossa’, the Nazi’s captured roughly 5.5 million Soviet prisoners of war resulting in one of the most concentrated mass killings in human history