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TIL: Harvard study found that Antioxidants had very little to no effect health benefits.

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yVx6l TIL that after Japan opened up to the world in the 1850s, Japanese art styles influenced European artists including Van Gogh, he called the influence Japonaiserie.
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ZpZPQ TIL: Samuel Byck tried to assassinate President Nixon by hijacking a plane and crashing it into the White House. Byck drove to BWI, shot a police officer, stormed a Delta aircraft and shot the two pilots. Police stopped Byck before the plane ever moved, but Nixon was in the White House at the time.
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