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TIL about "Rabbit starvation." It's a malnutrition caused by eating too mucg protein and not enough fat. It has historically been caused by eating rabbit meat exclusively, which is too lean

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j6AQp TIL that Nazi Officer Klaus Barbie, tortured prisoners during WW2, fled to the USA where he worked as a CIC Agent, emigrated to Bolivia where he made business with Pablo Escobar, helped capturing Che Guevara, was recruited by the BND (German Intelligence) and finally sentenced for life by France.
m51x TIL that Edison invented the electric chair to show that AC was more dangerous than DC so as to undermine Nicola Tesla and his financial backer Westinghouse at a crucial moment in the early days of the electricity wars. It backfired.
XEQ96 TIL the oldest and at one point most influential British merchant bank was destroyed in 1995 when an employee made a safe bet that stocks on the Tokyo Stock Exchange wouldn't drop, one day before the Kobe Earthquake.
e0beg Til bottle feeding orphan kittens means being peed on too.
yQepe TIL that horses actually put out up to 15 horsepower, and also that humans put out a little above 1 horse power.