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TIL Malaria did not kill half of all humans who have ever lived

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v1Kdx TIL that anti-margarine Senator Gordon Roselip incorrectly identified margarine as butter in a blind taste test. His wife later confessed that she had been feeding him margarine and telling him that it was butter.
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