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TIL Benjamin Franklin used to talk to his own Gout attack, who he named "Madam Gout"

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awDMo TIL Unit 731 in the Japanese Army undertook lethal human experimentation during WWII, not publicized because the U.S. secretly granted immunity to the physicians in exchange for research on biological warfare and data from human experimentation.
bd87 TIL Nutella has very few hazelnuts and is actually 58% sugar and is 32% fat, most of which is palm oil.
wLYYM TIL that when the NFL football team Seattle Seahawks invited a retired 4 star general to their facility, Seattles head coach Pete Carroll blitzed him with questions about whether the 9/11 attacks “had been planned or faked” by the government.
6ELoZ TIL the famous "Aaron Burr" Got Milk? ad of the early 90s was directed by a then unknown Michael Bay.
RBY9 TIL of the “Mother in Law Plant” whose poison hinders your ability to speak