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TIL that 50 years ago, the sugar industry quietly paid off some scientists to point blame at fat for heart diseases

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KO9JE Today I Learned: Gargoyles are fancy rain gutters. In architecture, a gargoyle is a carved or formed grotesque with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building, thereby preventing rainwater from running down masonry walls and eroding the mortar between.
5YAOQ TIL that there are still 74 countries where being gay is illegal and 13 countries where homosexuality is punishable by death
8mMV TIL When two New Zealand trawlers came across a Japanese submarine that outweighed them by more than 1000 tons, the two Kiwi trawlers kept ramming it until they beached the much larger sub. This allowed the U.S. to capture key Japanese codebooks
YYNr TIL in 2013 The Wall Street Journal discovered a cache of files that revealed the U.S. government lobotomized over 2000 veterans against their will after WW2. The veterans were lobotomized for reasons such as PTSD, depression, schizophrenia, and occasionally homosexuality.
WJpA TIL That in 2011 sea levels around the world dropped by almost a cm due to massive rainfalls across Australia.