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TIL a Human Nutrition professor ate mainly Hostess snack cakes for two months to prove That in weight loss, pure calorie counting is what matters most – not the nutritional value of the food.

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D1rZD TIL Evel Knievel, perhaps the best known daredevil, ruined his career when he attacked a man with a baseball bat due an unflattering book. The victim was knocked unconscious and needed major surgery to repair his arm.Evel only served 6 months in jail but lost all his endorsements and contracts.
kxxW TIL that all of the spent nuclear fuel in the United States could be safely stored in a building the size of a Wal-Mart
x6e6b TIL the Library of Congress has a “free to use and reuse” section featuring millions of photos, books, films, and sound recordings that are either in the public domain, have no known copyright, or have been cleared by the copyright owner for public use.