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TIL that the intense rationing in England during WWII actually reduced infant mortality by guaranteeing nutrition to everyone.

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kOEn7 There's an extremely rare metallic asteroid lurking between Mars and Jupiter, and it's worth more than the entire global economy. Now, the Hubble Space Telescope has given us a closer look at the object, which is worth an estimated $10,000 quadrillion. — that's a one followed by 19 zeroes.
wodJ1 TIL Po from Teletubbies is bilingual in Cantonese
7LM TIL much of what we know about pirates comes from a single primary source with questionable reliability.
NvQ6 TIL that “Rubber duck debugging” is when a programmer explains his code to a rubber duck in hopes of finding a bug
mLKy TIL: The Soup Nazi is real. Weeks after the episode aired, Seinfeld and the production team went to Soup Kitchen International for lunch, where they were berated by Ali Yeganeh (the soup nazi) for “ruining” his business. He then bellowed, “No soup for you!” and ejected them from the restaurant.