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TIL coelacanths and other lobe-finned fish are more closely related to humans than they are to other fish - I.e sharks, salmon etc

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rNBGy TIL The NIDA deliberately mislead the public for years about the dangers of mdma by promoting retracted studies that used lethal doses of methamphetamine instead.
7MPZ TIL that a secret soviet intelligence agent is primarily responsible for thwarting Operation Long Jump, concocted by Adolf Hitler, which was an attempt to assassinate Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt at the Tehran conference in 1943. This might be responsible for saving the world.
gMnPD TIL that film score composer Hans Zimmer saw the Lion King as a metaphor of a son loosing his father at a young age, which tragically also happened to him. "Suddenly I am writing a requiem for my father, and the whole thing became intensely personal”. The score landed him an Oscar for best music.
nWLwd TIL 11.6% of Americans have diabetes (2021 statistics). It's estimated that in 2020, almost every third American 65 or older had either diagnosed or undiagnosed diabetes.
7EV7 TIL there is a ghost ship full of diseased and viscous rats sailing the earths oceans, it recently almost crashed into a beach near Plymouth but missed and continued to sail.