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

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5nZ8 TIL that there is a Japanese urban legend about a spirit who haunts public bathrooms and will ask you if you want red or blue toilet paper.
OoQwa TIL Japan celebrates Easter, but with no Christian connotations, as a spring family holiday
X0o5X TIL A 2 billion yen run on a Japanese bank in 1973 was traced back to a casual remark about the danger of working in a bank during a conversation between three female high school students.
lokVr TIL that Jerri Blank's character in Strangers with Candy was based off of Florrie Fisher, a former addict and prostitute turned motivational speaker who was a cult icon for her outlandish stories shared with high school students in the 1960s and 70s.
JWEm TIL there is no Nobel Prize for Mathematics because Alfred Nobel did not want one.