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TIL that the story of Popeye eating spinach due to a misplaced decimal point over reporting its iron content is a myth. The correct iron value was already well known and nowhere did Popeye mention eating spinach because of its iron content.

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VMAYQ TIL about the organisation that lets you “buy” an acre of threatened rainforest for around $100 to protect it from deforestation.
AD7ag TIL Roald Dahl wrote the screenplay for the 1967 James Bond film, You Only Live Twice. He was actually friends with Ian Fleming, but disliked the original novel. So with the blessing of film producers, he heavily changed the story to better fit the big screen.
EMjx TIL Jim Hanks, Tom Hanks’ brother, does Woody’s voice in video games and merchandise
9wYP7 TIL cheetahs were at one point so close to extinction, their genetic diversity has become too low for their immune system to recognize a "nonself". Skin grafts exchanged between unrelated cheetahs are accepted as if they were clones or identical twins.
AZng TIL that tampons were originally designed for bullet wounds