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TIL that because of Valentine’s Day, March is the biggest month for pregnancy test sales.

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gk5L TIL that no study has shown the food additive MSG to be dangerous and the entire public outcry against it in the 1970s was because of one letter sent to the New England Journal of Medicine
awMay TIL The communion bread market has been cornered, outcompeting nuns at monasteries
4lJ5 TIL 2 groups of Chimpanzees fought a war against each other form 1974-1978. Dr. Jane Goodall was very disturbed by this and said,“For several years I struggled to come to terms with this new knowledge.”
QGv9 TIL The most widely used map today, known as the Mercator projection map, depicts the continents’ sizes distorted, for example, Alaska appears to be three times larger than Mexico, although Mexico actually is larger than Alaska
yG58 TIL an Auburn University graduate, James Brooks, was discovered to be illiterate after he couldn’t read court documents regarding him not paying child support.