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TIL Ounce by ounce, Nutritious food costs up to 10 times more than junk food.

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4ylb TIL… When Lord Kelvin claimed the Earth was not old enough to support Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, it was Darwin’s son, George Darwin, who helped prove his calculation invalid due to radiation from the earth’s core.
vPNnr TIL that Robert Murdoch tried to buy in 1990 the Romanian Palace of the Parliament, the biggest administrative building in the world for 1 billion dollars, his bid was rejected.
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