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TIL that in 2008, Harvard created their own version of the classic Food Pyramid that more accurately reflected dietary science.

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1659W TIL that the backhanded blessing, "May you live in interesting times," is not actually a Chinese expression.
X0aEX TIL that in the first Polish-language encyclopedia, the definition of Horse was: "Everyone can see what a Horse is"
kJ8r4 TIL Venmurasu is the world's longest novel, spanning 26,000 pages. An Indian writer completed it in just six years. It is a modern retelling of the Indian classical epic Mahabharata, with some minor details expanded into standalone stories the length of a typical novel.
e06p5 TIL that the drink Crystal Pepsi was killed in the US due to a "kamikaze" marketing campaign by Coke. Coke created the drink Tab Clear, designed to be unpopular, and marketed it so that consumers would conflate the two drinks even though they were not similar. It worked and both were pulled in 1994.
VBBb4 TIL: Between 1976 and 1977, Salvador Dalí signed 17,500 blank sheets of paper for tarot prints that had not yet been printed. This realization led to a huge increase in forgeries from printers who claimed to have used pre-signed paper for their "authorized" prints after Dali was bedridden.