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TIL Joseph Stalin banned the field of genetics as capitalistic 'bourgeois pseudoscience', with fatal consequences for many Soviet scientists.

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neMAb TIL That serving sizes in the US just describe the average amount of food a person would eat 50 years ago, not how much is healthy to eat.
wRVJ TIL In Switzerland it’s illegal to own just one guinea pig because they’re prone to loneliness
694RY TIL Belgium, Wisconsin has a large Luxembourgish population and Luxemburg, Wisconsin a large Belgian population due to a clerical error in processing their name applications
x6aA1 TIL most audio recordings contain a background "mains hum" from electric power grid oscillations that can be matched with grid readings to date the clip to the second it was recorded.
b9kna TIL Ukkusiksalik National Park is uninhabited now, but the Inuit lived there from 11th century to the 1960s. Remains of fox traps, tent rings, and food caches have been discovered in the area. Usually, the park can only be visited during a few summer weeks