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TIL There wasn’t a single clinical trial of the science in The Food Pyramid

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Brykk TIL that Sue Jones-Davies, who portrayed Judith in Monty Python's Life of Brian, later became Mayor of Aberystwyth. She discovered that the town had banned Life of Brian for thirty years, and her first act was to overturn the ban and stage a screening with Terry Jones and Michael Palin
N7LNb TIL that the CIA made an Osama bin Laden action figure that looks like a 'Star Wars' villain to send to Pakistani and Afghani kids, because "it would help find Bin Laden"
4XQEb TIL Mike Birbiglia is a diagnosed sleepwalker who jumped through a second story window while dreaming that a missile was about to hit his hotel. Birbiglia restrains himself by sleeping in a sleeping bag and wearing mittens at night.
11RP TIL that despite the popular myth, urine isn’t actually sterile.
7nGx TIL that honey badgers and driver ants are apex predators.