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TIL about Nobel Disease aka Nobelitis - Tendency for Some Nobel Winners to Embrace Fringe Beliefs Later in Life

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kJ89W TIL about Operation Midnight Climax, a CIA program in the 1950s and 1960s that involved the use of prostitutes to lure unwitting individuals into apartments that had been set up with hidden cameras and microphones. Part of MK-Ultra
DpOg TIL the British study that linked vaccines to autism was retracted because this “elaborate fraud” has done long-lasting damage to public health
b1Qp TIL Papa John sold his car 1983 to start up his pizza company. He later located and bought the car back in 2009.
9wKmQ TIL that Hello Kitty is not a cat; she's a British third-grader with a twin, according to Sanrio
woo4E TIL that chimpanzees are NOT 5 times stronger than humans. A chimpanzee's muscular performance can in fact only produce around 1.35-1.5 times the performance that human muscle can produce. This means that a large and athletic person will be as strong as a chimpanzee.