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TIL: Loneliness is a greater public health hazard than obesity

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YppVr TIL McDonald’s created a bubble gum flavored broccoli that was a big failure with kids.
KO7Vw TIL that in 2002 Joe Strummer (former frontman for The Clash) was vacationing in L.A. and found out Johnny Cash was in town recording. He came every day, and extended his vacation another week, to watch him play. They recorded Bob Marley's "Redemption Song" together, with Tom Morello on guitar.
KYl59 TIL When fire fighting foam damaged 734,465 volumes in the Russian Academy of Sciences the government put out a radio appeal for citizens to dry them in their homes, this saved 93% of them
6QO7 TIL there is a girl named Zara Hartshorn who suffers from a rare disease called lipodystrophy. She is only 15 but looks like she is in her 40s or 50s.
Z8GB TIL the loudest events in the universe are starquakes. The largest ever recorded was in 2004, the star Magnatar SGR 1806-20 adjusted itself with the force equal to 22.7 on the Richter scale. It happened 50,000 ly away from Earth, but if it was 10 ly away, it would have caused mass extinction.