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TIL Triscuits are salted on one side only
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Rw5a
TIL that the name Cerberus, Hades’ the three-headed dog that guards the underworld, is derived from the Greek word Kerberos which means spotted. Meaning Hades named is his guard dog “spot”
negLB
TIL that Emperor Hirohito of Japan was commissioned as a lieutenant in the army at age 13, escaped multiple assassination attempts, and became an acclaimed marine biologist after WWII
YyWd
TIL that in the 2010 BP gulf oil spill BP and the US Coast Guard used a “chemical dispirsant” that they claimed broke up the oil. Instead it just sank the oil temporarily, made it 52x more toxic, did nothing to clean it up, and is extremely poisonous. BP knew all of this before using it
78EX
TIL Ghengis Khan and his armies killed 9-11% of the entire world’s population
yRDp
TIL a rigorous experiment found that non-celiac gluten sensitivity probably doesn’t exist and instead patients were experiencing a ‘nocebo’ effect.