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TIL conservatives are healthier than liberals because they have a greater sense of personal responsibility

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0dna1 TIL when a French soldier refused to wear the bloodstained trousers of a dead man, his commanding officer had him executed in order to make an example out of him.
4X0x5 TIL The same person who patented the flight "blackbox" recorder also patented the automatic retractable car safety belt.
GAkEJ TIL about Shi Yousan, a Chinese general who defected to, and subsequently betrayed, Feng Yuxiang, Chiang Kai-shek, Wang Jingwei, Zhang Xueliang, the CPC, and Japan, in that order. Eventually, when he attempted to defect to Japan again, he himself was betrayed and executed by a subordinate.
mbQp TIL In 1774, Frederick the Great ordered Prussians to grow potatoes as protection against famine, but the populace were disgusted by them and refused. The king then planted “royal potato field” but allowed peasants to steal from it, which re-marketed the potato into a major food crop.
VB9jZ TIL in Belsano, Pennsylvania, US, there's a drive-in restaurant named Krispy Kream Drive-In, opened in 1968. Donut chain restaurant Krispy Kreme tried for years to force them to change their name, but no luck. The case was settled in 2009 on the condition that Krispy Kream wouldn't sell donuts.