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TIL that the food pyramid came from Sweden

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AD9Dn TIL that bathroom hand dryers suck fecal bacteria from the room and sprays it directly on your hands.
ZkGG TIL it is common in china for drivers who have accidentally hit pedestrians to drive over them again to kill them, because they pay less restitution that way.
89b4 TIL an officer in the American Civil War, Benjamin Runkle, was mistakenly left for dead on the battlefield. An obituary was written for him while he was still alive, but ironically Runkle outlived the man who wrote it, and in return wrote an obituary for his obituary writer
xDJB TIL that given Sean Connery’s rugged appearance and rough charm, a former lover of his initially thought he was “a most appalling person” and was not attracted to him until she saw him in a kilt, upon which she declared him to be “the most beautiful thing she’d ever seen in her life.”
A96B TIL that in early 1900s German kids used to die from diarrhea until a doctor invented carrot stew which saved thousands of lives