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TIL that the Spanish flu killed more people in 1 year than AIDS did in 40, and more than the bubonic plague did in a century.

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8aGyb TIL Breakfast wasn’t regarded as the most important meal of the day until an aggressive marketing campaign by General Mills in 1944. They would hand out leaflets to grocery store shoppers urging them to eat breakfast, while similar ads would play on the radio.
8axMG TIL During WWII, there was a unit of Japanese schoolgirls who looked after Kamikaze pilots before they went on suicide missions. Called the Nadeshiko, they were aged between 14-15 and lived and worked on a military base with the men, preparing meals and befriending them before they went to die.
6YwJ TIL that a common mormon belief is that Bigfoot is actually Cain, killer of Abel.
4k6yo TIL that nerves can be grafted and spliced like wires, fixing damage to muscle control or pain
bVQQ TIL The center of the Earth is hotter than the surface of the sun yet the pressure is so great (3.5 million times surface pressure) that at the inner core, even at that temperature, iron solidifies.