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TIL the overwhelming majority of doctors -- a total of 93 percent -- are concerned about the common meat industry practice of using antibiotics on healthy animals.

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LkQK9 TIL: Near-perfect ellipsoid lenses have been found among viking artifacts. Hinting that the Vikings likely made telescopes 1000 years ago, 500 years before Galileo.
M1pV TIL that President Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote three pages of detailed instructions for how his funeral should proceed, and locked them in the White House safe. They weren’t discovered until after he was buried.
X07aR TIL of Lincoln's 4 children, only one outlived them
9LDp TIL that in 1977, a boycott was launched against Nestlé when it was found that they were giving free samples of baby formula to new mothers in Africa and then charging for it as soon as they were unable to switch back to breastfeeding. This caused high infant mortality and development problems.
e0m66 TIL 2001 alone saw the release of games such as Halo, GTA III, Max Payne, Devil May Cry, Super Smash Bros. Melee, Metal Gear Solid 2, Ico, Final Fantasy X, Sonic Adventure 2, SSX Tricky, Conker's Bad Fur Day, Pikmin, and more games now considered classic blockbusters