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TIL In Cambodia, cooking with a "lucky iron fish" has helped villagers prevent anaemia.

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J1dlm TIL of Walter Summerford, a man who was struck by lightning 3 consecutive times after a period of 6 years each. Even after his death, his grave was struck by lightning.
RRjj TIL “…Charlie Brown is not bald. Though Charlie Brown is drawn with only a small curl of hair at the front of his head, and a little in the back, Charles M. Schulz has explained that he saw Charlie Brown as having hair that was light and cut short, so that it could not be seen very easily.”
d8D19 TIL that there is a monument to honour the almost one million (often forgotten) Allied horses who died during the First World War. Of one million drafted horses only 62,000 returned 1918.
pYAn4 TIL It’s likely that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt never had polio. Studies have suggested that Guillain–Barré syndrome caused his paralysis, and it was misdiagnosed as polio.
Bx9r TIL when coming to power in January 1933, the Nazi Party passed a comprehensive set of animal protection laws, with Hitler saying “In the new Reich, no more animal cruelty will be allowed”