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TIL Despite having oranges, papayas, groundnuts, vegetables, maize, a diet of manioc cooked with just water, no oil and no salt contributed significantly to the rise of kwashiorkor, or malnutrition in Central African Republic

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M7BW8 TIL: After a promise to his daughter, it took Walt Disney 20 years to finally obtain the rights to Mary Poppins
X0p1D TIL when Bryan Cranston was 12, he encountered Charles Manson while riding horses with his cousin at the Spahn Ranch, a year before the Tate murders occurred.
NX4eJ TIL about Li Xouying, who lived through the Massacre of Nanking. While 7 months pregnant, she fought off three Japanese soldiers who stabbed her 37 times; she survived and went on to advocate for the victims.
KoGw TIL the first UPC ever scanned was a 10 pack Juicy Fruit in 1974.
4XoP5 TIL Key's matchstick grasshopper, native to Australia, was rediscovered in 2019 after having not seen since 1967. It is flightless, and unlike most other grasshopper species, it is active during the winter. This insect's unique chromosomes were studied extensively by early evolutionary biologists.