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TIL White People in the US purchase more than twice the cheese per capita than Black or Asian people.

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VMpBm TIL of Joseph Paul Jernigan, a murderer who agreed to donate his body to science prior to his execution in 1993. Jernigan’s body was encased, frozen, and cut into 1,851 slices. Images of those cuts are now used by medical students and radiologists as a human anatomy correlate for CT and MRI images.
LMWr TIL 75% of fake drugs supplied world over have some origins in India, followed by 7% from Egypt and 6% from China
x6Pa1 TIL: that in 1676 a nun wrote a letter while claiming to be possessed by the devil.
YpVxr TIL that, with war looming, President Wilson - had he lost the 1916 election - pragmatically planned to avoid a long lame-duck period by appointing his opponent, Charles Evans Hughes, Secretary of State, with Wilson & his VP then resigning, thereby making Hughes president ahead of schedule.
mxpnx TIL, Hisashi Ouchi, whose chromosomes were literally destroyed due the extreme radiation, was kept alive, even though he wanted to die, due to his family not giving up. His heart stopped for 47 minutes.