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TIL Almonds and cashews aren't as high-calorie as we thought, and Kind is cutting the calorie counts of its bars as a result (15-25% less calories)

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ADWdx TIL during Roman spectacles it was popular to reenact historic battles or myths. Sometimes the myth of Icarus would be done by strapping wings on a slave and throwing them from the roof of the stadium. One time the man landed so close to Emporer Nero that he was splattered with his blood.
loQaN TIL: Canadian researchers have just identified what they say is the first case of Cancer (Osteosarcoma) in a dinosaur. It's diagnosis only took 75 million years!
xVak5 TIL that despite looking nothing alike and having different accents, Christopher and Jonathan Nolan are biological brothers and also have an older brother in prison for murder.
R6Yw TIL the two sides involved in the Nigerian civil war in 1967 agreed to a 48 hour ceasefire so that they could watch Pele play in Nigeria
97Nr TIL in 1978, then-NBA center Clifford Ray saved a dolphin’s life by using his 45 inch reach to grab a screw the dolphin had swallowed. He received instruction over the phone from a veterinarian, who told him how to reach up and into the dolphin’s second stomach to extract the screw.