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TIL in 2020 sugar sweetened beverages were estimated to have caused 80,278 deaths due to type 2 diabetes and 257,962 deaths from cardiovascular disease

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9wJbm TIL that blood donation was segregated in USA, and initially excluded African-American donors. It was not until 1950 that the Red Cross stopped requiring the segregation of so-called N. blood. And it was not until the late 1960s and early 1970s that Southern states overturned similar requirements
XejX TIL On the original release of the Velvet Underground and Nico’s eponymous debut album, you could peel the banana skin off the album cover, revealing a flesh-colored banana.
NQL6 TIL The voice actor of Boo in Monsters, Inc. was so young, it was difficult to get her to stand in the recording studio. The solution: they followed her around with a microphone.
raM TIL After hearing about the 9/11 attacks, the Maasai tribe in Kenya gave 14 cows to America as consolation. Which is actually a lot, knowing that the only asset they have are their cows.
wAWo TIL Mr Bean’s humour truly crosses language and cultural barriers; a friend of Rowan Atkinson’s was in a poor African village during the 90s when she heard loud laughter coming from a shack. She went in & discovered most of the village gathered around a fuzzy black & white TV watching Mr Bean.