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TIL in 1981 Muhammad Ali Talked a Suicidal Man Off a Ledge

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Xp8E TIL 2008 was the UN approved International Year of the Potato
PdWE TIL Swaziland has 1 psychiatrist.
g6X7 TIL that the illegal landing of a “mentally unstable” 19 year old amatuer pilot in the Red Square inadvertantly helped lead to the fall of the Soviet Union, and the end of the Cold War.
1XEr TIL that the “rules of the food game in America are organized in such a way that if you are eating on a budget, the most rational economic strategy is to eat badly — and get fat. Adam Drewnowski found that a dollar could buy 1,200 calories of cookies or potato chips but only 250 calories of carrots.
jNGmE TIL that platypuses produce milk despite lacking nipples. Instead of teats, they "sweat" milk from glands on their belly that their young then lap up.