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TIL that no study has shown the food additive MSG to be dangerous and the entire public outcry against it in the 1970s was because of one letter sent to the New England Journal of Medicine

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W779d TIL mouse "car washes" are being developed by Columbia University scientists to help reduce ticks and Lyme disease.
lpWr TIL that swearing on the Bible is forbidden by the Bible.
OVn6 TIL there is a curry so hot that it is higher on the Scoville Scale for hotness than tear gas. It’s also so hot that only ONE MAN on earth has been able to finish a full serving and that guy wandered around town hallucinating for ten minutes halfway through his dish
d8yvZ TIL that the live penguins that starred in Batman Returns (1992) had their own refrigerated dressing rooms and a swimming pool. The set was kept cold for them. Danny DeVito was the only one who was comfortable, because of the extensive face prosthetics, heavy padding, and heavy coat he had to wear.
5YeQR TIL the youngest person to have a research paper published in a peer-reviewed medical journal is Emily Rosa (aged 9 at the time). Her paper set showed how the Human Energy Field and 'Therapeutic Touch' was largely quackery