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TIL Margaret Thatcher’s son conspired with a private mercenary company to stage a coup in a West African country for oil money

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LwxV TIL To prove that weight loss wasn’t about eating healthier, but rather just eating less calories; a Nutrition Professor consumed 1,800 cal of junk food per day for 10 weeks. Not only did he lose 27 lbs he also lowered his bad cholesterol and raised his good cholesterol.
D1Qvj TIL that a Russian Pilot bet his Co-pilot that he could land his plane with his eyes closed. He proceeded to lose said bet
R1R6 TIL the Tuol Sleng extermination camp in Cambodian used vivisections without anesthesia as a form of execution. Only 7 out of 10,000 people survived the camp.
K9j9 TIL that 98% of all Adoptions in Japan are of Male Adults, so that family businesses can remain within the family.
nbV9 TIL of “Mit brennender Sorge,” a papal letter secretly smuggled into Germany and read from every Catholic pulpit on Palm Sunday, 1937. It condemned the Reich Government and implied that everyone in Heaven was laughing at Hitler, a “prophet of nothingness”.