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TIL Royal Marine Mark Gray saved 20,000 lives by draining the water from a dam before it was blown up by Serbian militia

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8MgP TIL that the average American eats the same amount of sugar in five days that the average American 200 years ago consumed all year.
7k7Z TIL Guangzhou gets its cat meat from a fringe network of “catnappers” who snatch strays all over the country. Catnappers are paid 10 yuan per head for their catch, allowing them to earn about $30 a night.
j6K1R TIL Operation Midnight Climax was a program by the CIA in the mid 50s that used prostitutes to lure unsuspecting men to apartments in New York and San Francisco to drug them with LSD to test whether the combination of sex and LSD might influence the men to reveal information the government wanted.
e0WBD TIL that Hawaii's statehood was delayed for several decades because of consistent opposition by the "Solid South" (southern states) who refused to tolerate non-white Congressmen
78lVO TIL researchers last year analyzed two dozen studies on reading comprehension published between 2000-2022, which assessed nearly 470,000 participants, and found that print reading over a long period of time may boost comprehension skills by six to eight times more than digital reading does.