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TIL only one US President (Woodrow Wilson) has had a PhD

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QNNge TIL The discovery of vitamin D curing rickets in the 1930s led to the fortification of common foods. This took the statistics of approximately 80–90% of children showing varying degrees of bone deformations due to vitamin D deficiency to being a very rare condition.
DQB4V TIL that many animals spend much of their time doing nothing, even those we think of as particularly busy. "If you look at a colony of ants, or bees, or any social insect really, maybe a little bit less than half of them are just standing around doing what looks like nothing."
xV5WB TIL chicken produced in US has been banned in the EU since 1997 as it is washed in a strong chlorine solution. The chlorine washing is popular in US due to poor hygiene standards in abattoirs.
yQeev TIL that Canada, which is 1.4% Sikh, has more Sikhs than any country other than India (1.9% Sikh)
5YQ0Q TIL the actress Elizabeth Shue's older brother was swinging from a rope over a pond when the rope broke. He was impaled on the branches of a tree and died while his siblings watched helplessly.