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TIL miso soup combats the harmful effects of radiation exposure

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1aY8O TIL that Saparmurat Niyazov, the former President of Turkmenistan made a number of bizarre Decrees and Laws, including abolishing the native language word for bread and replacing it with his mother's name, banning opera & ballet and banishing dogs from the capital city because of their odor.
71XO TIL: In a 2012 British random sampling of 68 recent convictions involving child sexual exploitation, 59 of the offenders were Pakistani men, that is approximately 87%.
yVLjX TIL that Operation Denver was an active measure disinformation campaign run by the KGB in the 1980s to plant the idea that the United States had invented HIV/AIDS as part of a biological weapons research project at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
EgZyx TIl: James Cameron drew all the pictures in Jack’s sketchbook. In fact, the hands seen sketching Rose wearing the necklace are not Jack’s but Cameron’s. Since he is left-handed and Jack right-handed, the shots were mirror-imaged in post-production.
ZpyvB TIL that Popeyes Chicken began in New Orleans, LA as "Chicken On The Run", as owner Al Copeland wanted Popeyes to directly compete with KFC. Only open a few months, the original restaurant failed, causing Copeland to rename it Popeyes Might Good Chicken, which became Popeyes Famous Fried Chicken.