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TIL: PBS covered a 2018 doctoral thesis which found that people who ate ice cream more than twice a week were 12% less likely to develop cardiovascular disease. However, an Italian study showed that eating ice cream does increase the chance of type 2 diabetes

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dDpa7 TIL the Dothraki language in Game of Thrones was developed for the show by linguist David J. Peterson, based on a few words from the books, mostly names. Before filming, he had expanded the vocabulary to over 1,700 words, drawing inspiration from Russian, Swahili, Turkish, Inuktitut and Estonian.
49xg TIL Despite being a Major General, 56, and needing a cane to walk, Theodore Roosevelt Jr was one of the first troops to land at Utah Beach, personally doing a recon mission and directing units onto their objectives under fire. He was both the oldest and highest ranking man to land with first wave.
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woLVE TIL there is over 1 million feral horses in Australia, they pose a danger to domestic livestock and road traffic to such a point they need regular culls. There were no Horses in Australia in 1788. From 1820 to 1860, the horse population in Australia increased from 3,969 to 431,525
j6gEE TIL that although the Gregorian Calendar is built around the fact that Jesus' birth was in 1 AD (AD stands for "Anno Domini" or "in the year of the Lord"), most historians agree that Jesus was actually born between 4 BC and 6 BC.