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TIL McDonald’s once made bubblegum-flavored broccoli

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ZmMY TIL that a 1920s anti-catholic mob, led by the Klan, became convinced the pope was on a train in Indiana. A corset salesman spent half an hour convincing the mob he wasn’t the pope in disguise.
4dvX TIL an Australian biotech company called Prana may have a cure for Alzheimer’s disease. Results from the phase II human trials will be released in March
XPL6 TIL that 29% of San Francisco’s air pollution comes from China
78LPr Today I learned that, 29 years after the end of World War 2, a Japanese man named Teruo Nakamura continued to secretly fight on for Japan on an Indonesian Island
Y8XW TIL: This guy (Jason Lewis) became the 1st person to circumnavigate the Earth without using motors or sails. He walked, cycled, & inline skated 5 continents, & kayaked, swam, rowed, & pedalled a boat across the rivers, seas, and oceans. It took him 13 years to complete, the 46,505-mile journey.