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TIL In 1972, a British scientist sounded the alarm that sugar – and not fat – was the greatest danger to our health. But his findings were ridiculed and his reputation ruined.

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nWjb7 TIL Ernest P. Worrell (Ernest Saves Christmas et al.) & Vern were originally created by advertising company Carden & Cherry to promote various local and national brands. Due to the commercials popularity, an Ernest television show and ten movies were made, knowwhatimean?
570P TIL an Austrian, claiming to be a member of The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, successfully convinced his gov’t that he had to wear a pasta strainer on his head for his driver’s license photo because it was his “religious headgear”. The gov’t made him undergo a psychiatric evaluation first.
9bRr TIL that in WWII the Soviets used captured Germans and fake radio messages to convince the Nazis of a large German armed group stranded behind Soviet lines. The Nazis kept sending airdrops and rescue missions, which the Soviets would promptly capture and force to participate in the illusion
E1MAp TIL the Saturn V rocket carrying the Apollo 12 mission was hit twice by lightning. 36.5 seconds after launch. lightning hit as it ascended the cloud layer, setting off alarms due to guidance systems errors. 15 second later it was hit again and instruments no longer displayed meaningful information
QJNka TIL that a man built and planted an extremely complex bomb in a Nevada Casino - the FBI could not disarm it, and the controlled detonation blew up most of the Casino.