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TIL that prior to the 1920s, up to 70% of children in parts of the United States had goiters due to iodine deficiency.

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yOMv TIL While filming The African Queen (1950) in the Congo,everybody on the crew including Katherine Hepburn, became extremely ill with dysentery from drinking the water. Everybody that is except for Humphrey Bogart, who only drank whiskey
RALw TIL that George Washington was a redhead.
XEwBQ TIL 8-yr-old Saga Vanecek found a 1,500-yr-old sword when wading in a lake in Sweden. She pointed it up to the sky and called out, “Daddy, I’ve found a sword!” She was bummed when her dad made her give the sword to the local museum and said she was raising money to make a sword replica for herself.
KYXDR TIL sound travels at 343 m/s in air, 1,481 m/s in water (almost 4.3 times as fast) and at 5,120 m/s in iron (almost 15 times as fast) and in diamond sound travels at 12,000 metres per second (39,000 ft/s),[2]— about 35 times its speed in air because of how exceptionally stiff diamond is.
l7LB1 TIL the current Spanish-language World Champion for Scrabble has previously also won the French-language and English-language championships. A New Zealander, he only speaks English.