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TIL a teen, who had reportedly eaten "practically nothing" but chicken nuggets for 15 years, was hospitalized after collapsing. She was diagnosed with anemia & swollen veins in her tongue & put on an emergency vitamin regimen. Once in a while, she'd eat toast or chips, but never fruits or vegetables

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l7Wo7 TIL Spengler (1880-1936) predicted that about the year 2000, Western civilization would enter the period of pre‑death emergency which would lead to 200 years of Caesarism (extra-constitutional omnipotence of the executive branch of government) before Western civilization's final collapse.
8a5lb TIL there used to be a sport called Ferret-legging, where a ferret is trapped in a contestant’s pants, while not wearing underwear.
Z8AZv TIL Japanese Emperor Hirohito, in his radio announcement declaring the country's capitulation to the Allies in WWII, never used the word "surrender" or "defeat" but instead stated that the “war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan’s advantage."
grWl9 TIL: In ancient Rome actors had a very low social status and were seen as little better than prostitutes
PxPn TIL, In 1242, all of Western Europe could have been destroyed had the Mongol horde’s leader, Ögedei Khan, not died of alcohol poisoning during a hunting trip; forcing the horde to return to Mongolia to choose a new Khan.