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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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6E4lW TIL that the sun loses about 6 million tons of mass every second due to nuclear fusion and the solar wind. Despite constantly losing large sums of mass, it has only lost roughly 0.05% of its original mass over the last 4.5 billion years.
E6Xx TIL 24 out of the 56 countries and states of Africa are in a war or military conflict
D1a5D TIL in 332 BC when Alexander the Great arrived in Egypt they did not put up a fight against him, instead saw him as a liberator from the Persian empire, he was pronounced son of the deity Amun at the Oracle of Siwa Oasis in the Libyan desert.
wo807 TIL that Stitch’s Great Escape! at Disney World was originally a notoriously scary attraction called ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter, which was in turn originally going to be an Alien movie ride with an animatronic Ripley and Giger-inspired architecture.
xVGPw TIL Mortal Kombat was blamed for a boy's death after he and a friend reenacted moves from the game with a knife they found in the street. His mom tried to sue the game's developers, but lost.