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TIL 756 of the 766 food chemicals introduced into the American food supply since 2000 have zero FDA approval

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96Dr TIL that John McCain broke both arms and a leg, then had his shoulder crushed when his plane went down in North Vietnam. He was then tortured for two years, yet refused the early release offered to him because it did not include all American POWs. He lost 50 pounds and his hair turned white.
WwMX TIL that British prisoners of war during WW2 were a huge morale drain on the German people. And often they’d get their captors arrested by filing fallacious complaints about their treatment in the camps.
X0jM8 TIL that Claude La Colombi, the priest who helped spread the Sacred Heart of Jesus devotion, was awaiting return to France from England when he was implicated in the false Popish plot and was eventually punished with exile to France.
p1Mb TIL that evidence suggests Neanderthals used boats before modern humans
R7ay7 TIL there is a second Pope in Egypt. Currently they are on their 118th pope, Pope Tawadros II.