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TIL that no study has shown the food additive MSG to be dangerous and the entire public outcry against it in the 1970s was because of one letter sent to the New England Journal of Medicine

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A9gB TIL according to FBI files, the Jewish Defense League had extorted money from ‘various rap music stars’ by making 'death threats’ and then offering protection for a fee
aXey TIL that because of a feud on the set of Groundhog day the collaborative filmmaking duo of Bill Murray and Herold Ramis didn’t talk for 21 years. It wasn’t until a week before Ramis’s death that the two made up.
69d7Q TIL about the Hymenocera picta or harlequin shrimp, which feeds exclusively on starfish, including the venomous barbed crown-of-thorns starfish. These shrimp are able to flip a starfish onto its back to avoid its defenses and feed on its soft tissues.
WXDB TIL India’s Mars mission is cheaper than a Hollywood movie Gravity
wQa6 TIL that none of the couples from “The Bachelor” are still married.