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TIL The Metal Gear Solid 3 meal Calorie Mate is a real product from Japan.

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xVDWo TIL Stephen Hawking saw a future in which the rich would use genetic engineering to make themselves smarter, more disease resistant and likely to live longer. “Once such superhumans appear, there will be significant political problems with unimproved humans, who won’t be able to compete", he wrote.

awJNo TIL The Help Celebrate Our 150th American Independence Day in 1926, Poland Presented President Coolidge with a birthday present to America as a big thank you for aid during WW1. The present was an 11 volume, 300,000 pages of 5.5 million (1/6 of population then) signatures from polish people.

j6EJj TIL Mad World was originally by Tears For Fears and the Gary Jules version is a cover.

D1ev TIL before syphilis had a name, it had been called the “French disease” in Italy, Poland and Germany; the “Italian disease” in France; the “Spanish disease” in the Netherlands; the “Polish disease” in Russia; the “Christian disease” in Turkey; and the “British Disease” in Tahiti.

xby7 TIL Henry Ford decided to mass-produce his cars with controls on the left partially for the convenience for passengers exiting directly onto the curb, “especially … if there is a lady to be considered”.