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TIL a man who developed 'popcorn lung' after years of inhaling the smell of artificial butter flavoring from daily consumption of microwave popcorn sued Gilster-Mary Lee Corp. and King Soopers for failing to warn on labels that the flavoring diacetyl was dangerous. In 2012, he was awarded $7,217,961

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R5gBQ TIL In 1924 Hitler was sentenced to 5 years in prison, but only served 8 months. He and his Nazi party tried to overthrow the Weimar government which eventually led to his sentence. The government was afraid of angering his political base so they reduced the sentence to only 8 months.
eMLn TIL the “IKEA bias"makes you place a disproportionately high value on stuff you partially assemble yourself, regardless of the quality of the end result.
pYN8G TIL Singapore only had 3 PMs in it's 65 year history - the 4th one being elected today in 2024. Lowest turnover in any long-lived democracy
L00Z TIL: Several studies in the US have found that domestic violence is significantly more common in the families of police officers than in other families
xVLDk TIL that the oldest undisputed known depiction of a human being, the Venus of Hohle Fels, is about 40,000 years old, and made from mammoth ivory. It's on display in a museum in a small German town.