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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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Z8mOY TIL of the Duga Radar Array, a Soviet over-the-horizon radar hidden in the forests of Chernobyl that was at the heart of mind control conspiracy theories
0w67N TIL There is no "Missing Link" in Human Evolution. The term "missing link" has fallen out of favor with biologists because it implies the evolutionary process is a linear phenomenon and that forms originate consecutively in a chain. Instead, the term Last Common Ancestor is preferred.
RVva TIL that in 1970, a group of hikers outside of Bergen, Norway, suddenly came upon the charred, naked corpse of a woman in the middle of the Isdalen Valley. The woman was nicknamed the Isdal Woman and her story remains one of Norway’s deepest mysteries.
pJ7p TIL “the annual savings on enforcement and incarceration costs from the legalization of drugs would amount to roughly $41.3 billion, with $25.7 billion being saved among the states and over $15.6 billion accrued for the federal government.”
VMBpG TIL the average age of an S&P 500 company is under 20 years, down from 60 years in the 1950s.