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TIL That consuming foods containing vitamin C as a cure for Scurvy has been repeatedly rediscovered and forgotten through history

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mx0QY TIL that looks are so important in elections that children have a great success rate of picking victors just from photos of the candidate's faces.
oRwOW TIL about the Sankebetsu brown bear incident a series of bear attacks which took place 9-15 December 1915, at the beginning of the Taishō era, in a remote area of Hokkaido, Japan. The attacks ended when the hungry bear, so smart that it started to trick people, was shot dead.
YpEKA TIL According to a study's preliminary results, when shopping, consumers respond rationally for the first 23 minutes, then they begin to think with the emotional part of their brain. After 40 minutes, the brain becomes tired and effectively shuts down, ceasing to form rational thoughts altogether.
VMWNm TIL that due to aristocratic ethos only amateurs could officially participate in the Olympics, professional athletes were banned. The Eastern bloc got around this rule with state-sponsored "full-time amateur athletes". The rule was eventually loosened in the 70s and abolished in 1988.
kJ6JW TIL that between 2016 and 2020 doctors in the USA surgically mutilated 48,000 people for profit