› added 8 years ago

248

TIL that in the 1960s, the sugar industry funded research that downplayed the risks of sugar and highlighted the hazards of fat

Read more npr.org

via ift.tt

WkEE8 TIL of the Bethke brothers. Each escaped from Soviet East Berlin. Ingo floated on a mattress across a river. Holger used a bow to fire a cable across the gap, then zip-lined to safety. Then Ingo and Holger built an aircraft and flew back over the wall to rescue their third brother, Egbert.
W9dN TIL that the Troll offshore platform is the biggest structure ever to be moved by man. It is 1210 feet high (369m)
ERXx TIL there have been more deaths in Chicago from gang violence than troops killed in Afganistan since 2001.
X0XR TIL when you see something for the first time then start to see it everywhere, it is called the ‘Baader-Meinhof phenomenon’.
4kPkb TIL Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen lost his left arm in a car crash during the recording of their album Hysteria, but he relearned how to play drums with one arm and custom pedals—finishing the album and continuing his career.