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TIL that the world map that we are all familiar with is actually proportionally inaccurate and the real world looks much different. For example Africa is actually so large that it can fit the United States, China, India, Japan, UK, Eastern Europe and 6 other Western European countries combined.

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PYPmg TIL Dr Joseph Goldberger proved in 1915 that pellagra was caused by poor diet in the South. Southern leaders refused to heed the advice of a northern Jewish doc and pellagra wasn't eradicated until 1945 when federal law required flour be fortified with thiamine, niacin, and iron
Lkgm0 TIL that in 2005, after Rob Schneider called movie critic Patrick Goldstein unqualified because he’d never won the Pulitzer Prize, famous film critic Roger Ebert told Schneider that, as a Pulitzer winner, HE was qualified to review the film, and that “Your movie sucks.”
b9E4j TIL the Atomium is a world famous monument in Belgium thats image was so tightly controlled, that until 2015 organizations posting photographs of it online were being threatened with legal action for simply publishing photos.
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VBb4k TIL in 2003, billionaire Eddie Lampert was kidnapped by two men and placed blindfolded in a motel bathroom. Then, his captors made a mistake: they ordered pizza with his credit card. Lampert was then able to negotiate with them that it was better to let him go. The kidnappers were caught within days