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TIL The European colonization of America caused a minor cooling of the world due to the decimation of the native population. An estimated 55 million native Americans died due to disease, famine and direct violence.

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644W TIL That in 1967, medical researchers at a Vermont state prison conducted an experiment where they had inmates gain up to 25% of their body weight in return for early release. For some of the volunteers, it was impossible to reach their target weights, despite eating up to 10,000 calories a day.
Brykk TIL that Sue Jones-Davies, who portrayed Judith in Monty Python's Life of Brian, later became Mayor of Aberystwyth. She discovered that the town had banned Life of Brian for thirty years, and her first act was to overturn the ban and stage a screening with Terry Jones and Michael Palin
4MwN TIL 7up originally contained lithium
mx1xM TIL that Nintendo's NES was responsible for the recovery of "The Video Game Crash of 1983", and therefore, saved the North American video game industry as a whole.
7rexZ TIL When you stop smoking weed, you're going to experience a huge increase in your dreams and their vividness due to your brain trying to catch up on all the missed REM sleep for the next 2-7 weeks.