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TIL 84 percent of vegetarians go back to eating meat

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8eaZ8 TIL The video for Zombie's song Dragula features Herman's Munster Koach, not Grandpa's Dragula.
5YXxQ TIL That banks can't charge military personnel more than 6% interest on credit card, auto loan or mortgage while they are on active duty.
mbLR TIL avg height in US has leveled off since the late 60s compared to northern EU nations, scientists posit that one factor is greater access to nutrition and health in socialized advanced eu nations.
oBLGR TIL that in 1987 107 people in Canada suffered from amnesiac shellfish poisoning after eating contaminated mussels. Symptoms included diarrhea, cramps and, permanent short term memory loss.
xVb0k TIL that in social psychology, pluralistic ignorance is a situation in which a majority of group members privately reject a norm, but go along with it because they assume, incorrectly, that most others accept it. "No one believes, but everyone thinks that everyone believes"