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TIL - The word vegetarian, coined by the founders of the British Vegetarian Society in 1842, The original meaning of the word implies a balanced philosophical and moral sense of life, a lot more than just a diet of vegetables and fruits.

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Me8Wm TIL in 1959 a group of men transported a piece of iceberg from Norway to west Africa in a truck.
E1bM7 TIL In an attempt to make McDonald’s food 'more healthy,' some of its nutrient-enhanced meals are actually worse for you than junk food. Most notably, McDonald’s Kale salad is the most outrageous offender, with more calories, fat, and sodium than a Double Big Mac burger.
m1N5x TIL about Nkisi Nkondi - ritual Congolese statues made to enforce oaths and protect villages. Nails were used to alert the spirit inside of the statue to punish those breaking oaths.
v1PER Prochlorococcus is believed to be the most abundant photosynthetic creature on the planet and may provide as much as 20 percent of the oxygen you breathe. Oceanographer and Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia Earle introduces us to these microscopic bacteria.
r9gM TIL: The FBI testified to “100% certainty” of finger print match of an innocent man (and how little science is involved in forensic “science”).