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TIL that MSG has not been found to cause any health problems

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MeKQ8 TIL Robert Altman's 14-year-old son, Michael, wrote the lyrics to "Suicide is Painless" for his dad's movie MAS*H. When the movie was turned into a TV show, the song was used as the theme of the series and he earned over $1 million in royalties.
j64Mp TIL that 43 species of termites are used as food by humans and food for livestock.
RA04 TIL that Adolf Hitler scribbled a prototype for a car in 1932, sitting at a restaurant table in Munich, which would later go on to become the immensely successful design for a car we now know as the Volkswagen Beetle.
J1gK1 TIL Astronomers image the Sun in detail using hydrogen-alpha telescopes with monochrome cameras rather than colour as they can make full use of their sensors. This means processing software is used to make the Sun appear in colours like yellow and orange
oBeMK TIL the author of Peter Pan gifted his rights to the story to a children’s hospital in 1929, which has benefited to this day.