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TIL There’s a Norwegian news site that makes readers pass a test proving they read the article before being allowed to comment on it

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1RQX TIL The movie Patch Adams hindered the real Patch Adams and his Gesundheit Institute in getting funds to build a hospital as the movie falsely claims the hospital was already built.
N4N TIL that there are more people of Lebanese descent in Brazil than there are in Lebanon itself.
Z8ARv TIL In 1965, a patent was filed for a "birthing apparatus" which would spin pregnant women around at as much as 7G until their baby was flung out from the centrifugal force.
rRYjy TIL broccoli is man made. Even though it was made over 2000 years ago. By farmers breeding different types of cabbage
Z8p8v TIL that 47 years ago an an estimated 500,000 people were killed in one night when tropical cyclone Bhola hit the densely populatedGanges Delta region of East Pakistan.