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TIL Bill Nye holds a patent for improved ballet shoes

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1xoV TIL starting in the 1960s, the American Heart Association advised the public to eat less saturated fat and switch to vegetable oils for a “healthy heart.” The American Heart Association was founded in part by the makers of Crisco.
ANNjB TIL: The Jacob Diamond, estimated to be worth £100 million (2008), was used as a paperweight for a long time until the diamond's true value was realized
4XnJg TIL: That our solar system is flying through the Milky Way Galaxy at an incomprehensible 828,000 Kilometers an hour, but the Milky Way is so big that it still takes the Solar System 230 million years to orbit it.
oRrOL TIL Phil Collins, composer of the soundtrack to Disney's 1999 animated film "Tarzan", performed all the songs not only in English, but Spanish, Italian, German and French as well.
R5Pgj TIL Humans are not the only species that has discovered agriculture. Ants have been practicing agriculture for at least 50 million years. The domestication of plant, fungus, and animal species by ants is well documented.