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TIL That Excess Soy Consumption Has Been Linked With ADD/ADHD, Depression, Anxiety, Dementia, and Seizures

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GYvlQ TIL the phrase ‘Drop you a Line’ refers to a sending very short letter: a row of written text is the the singular ‘line’, delivered through a letter ‘dropped’ in a mailbox
9wZWr TIL in 1996, some characters were changed on the children's literacy program "The Letter People". Instead of vowels being all female characters and consonants being all male characters, a change was made to make half the letters male and half of them female. Junk food references were also replaced.
EgZo0 TIL that Frederick the Great had a special unit of super tall soldiers, and wished to breed them with tall women to create a giant army.
4k0Qa TIL a Texas dad sold his business and built a $51 million amusement park for his disabled daughter, offering free admission to people with special needs. Since opening, Morgan’s Wonderland has welcomed over 4 million visitors, with one-third of its staff having special needs.
LQOD0 TIL that Neil Young's Southern Man briefly plays in the background of Lynyrd Skynyrd's Sweet Home Alabama when they mention him (at about 0:54)