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TIL that a recent medical study that discredited a low sugar diet was funded by Coca Cola, Hershey’s, General Mills, and several other major food companies.

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Z8kv4 TIL that skateboarding was banned in Norway from 1977 to 1989
vgkL TIL that in 2010 Microsoft banned a user from Xbox Live for putting Fort Gay (A real location in West Virginia) as his address. Microsoft refused to believe that Fort Gay actually existed, and eventually took an appeal from the towns Mayor David Thompson for the issue to be corrected.
LQB69 TIL the first Actor of Asian Descent to win an Academy Award was an amateur actor, winning for his first movie. He also survived three terms in Khmer rouge's Concentration camps during Pol Pot's Regime.
OL1Y TIL actor Dave Foley can’t return to Canada withoutt going to jail because he owes 600,000 and is “ literally obligated to give away 400% of my income, or otherwise go to jail.”
EBjP TIL French WWI infantry went into a disastrous battle baa'ing like sheep- they knew they were being sent to the slaughter.