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TIL a single strand of human hair can support the weight of 100g

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VBYY8 TIL That Americans Were Eating Sushi in 1905, and that there were Japanese restaurants in most American cities.
4jP5 TIL In the 1960s, the sugar industry paid three Harvard scientists $50,000 to say that heart disease was most likely caused by saturated fat. After their report was published in JAMA, diets concentrating on low fat gained the endorsement of many health authorities.
b9bRE TIL traditionally bubblegums are made using tree resins, today most bubblegums are made from synthetic materials, such plastic and rubber.
5VMbp TIL that Aaron Bank, who founded US Army Special Forces, was a real life Inglorious Basterd tasked with killing or capturing Hitler. His mission was only canceled because of how rapidly the war came to an end in Berlin.
8aDLL TIL North Korea has 1 of the biggest art factories, which makes both state propaganda, and colossal monuments that many countries have bought eg, Senegal’s African Renaissance Monument, in Dakar, 164 feet tall, taller than Rio de Janeiro’s Cristo Redentor