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TIL a meta analysis of 21 separate studies spanning as many as 23 years and testing 347,000 people concluded there is no significant evidence that consumption of saturated fat has any relationship to coronary heart disease or cardiovascular disease.

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epE8k TIL that Henry Patch, briefly the oldest man in Europe and the last surviving soldier known to have fought in WW1, died aged 111 years, 1 month, 1 week, and 1 day
d8YZE TIL the best-selling edition of Playboy magazine was the November 1972, which sold over seven million copies, when one-quarter of all American college men were buying or subscribing to it every month. By 2014 circulation had declined to 320,000 per month and now it's published quarterly.
wLPpP TIL that from atop Telescope Peak in Death Valley, CA, one can see both the highest point (Mt Whitney) and the lowest point (Badwater Basin) in the Continental US.
j65Bj TIL that from 1603 to 1867, Japan’s Tokugawa Shogunate enacted a policy called Sakoku that isolated the country from foreign trade and contact. Only Dutch, Chinese, and Korean traders were allowed to trade in Nagasaki under strict regulations and were strictly observed during their stay.
W7Zo9 TIL about Shockwave, a semi-truck outfitted with three jet engines capable of producing 36,000 horsepower which allowed the truck to complete the quarter-mile in 6.63 seconds. It consumed fuel at a rate equal to 400 gallons per mile (940 liters per km), even more when using the afterburners.