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TIL all maps of China are slightly wrong

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v1DGR TIL that George Washington ordered the entire Continental Army inoculated against smallpox despite popular resistance to the practice
YppAG Turns out the phrase "cold feet" actually has some, erm, scientific footing.
gk5L TIL that no study has shown the food additive MSG to be dangerous and the entire public outcry against it in the 1970s was because of one letter sent to the New England Journal of Medicine
xj75 TIL that the staple ingredient in most Italian foods is not native to Italy nor Europe. The tomato originated in Mexico.
gMb8D TIL scattered around Roopkund Lake in the Indian Himalaya are the bones of about 800 people who seemingly died in a single unkown event in 800 AD. Newer studies reveal that some of the bones belong to another group of people who also died in a single event. Except a thousand years after the others.