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TIL about Joseph Goldberger an epidemiologist in the US Public Health Service. He proved pellagra was due to bad diet, but for years his evidence was disbelieved.

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E1wgX TIL That one of Canada's political parties wants to make "Sorry" Canada's oficial motto
wJ6E TIL that in the Detroit area, sliding glass doors are sometimes known as “doorwalls”.
vZp4 TIL sperm whales sleep vertically.
p8weO TIL that birds that habitually perch in trees hop, because it is not practicable to walk from twig to twig, while those that spend much of their time feeding on the ground walk.
ne5DG TIL in the 2000 paralympics, the Spanish team in basketball-ID consisted of fully functional semi-pros. They won gold by a landslide but where discovered because one of the players was an undercover journalist investigating fraud comitted by the president of the Spanish Disabled Sports Federation.