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TIL: Lobsters were once considered insects of the sea and couldn’t be fed to prisoners more than once a week because it was considered “cruel punishment”.

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DpmD TIL GlaxoSmithKline knew that the anti-depressant drug paroxetine didn’t work in adolescents and increased their risk of suicide, yet didn’t divulge the information as “it would be commercially unacceptable to include a statement that efficacy had not been demonstrated.”
mxjdp TIL that 12pt Courier is the standard font for film script writing because it's a fixed-width font meaning letters have equal spaces between them, so 55 lines on a page equals about a minute of screen time
8e8KZ TIL That Alfred Eisenstaedt, the man who took the infamous "Eyes of Hate" photo of Joseph Goebbels, also took the well known "Victory Kiss" photo
m1WNR TIL about St. Felix's flood of 1530. A flood that left large parts of the low countries uninhabitable and allegedly killed more than 100,000.
b9x7 TIL in 2005 Swedish millionaire Johan Eliasch purchased a 400,000-acre (1,600 km2) area of land in the heart of the Amazon rainforest from a logging company for the sole purpose of it’s preservation.