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TIL Three-quarters of U.S. teens and adults are deficient in vitamin D, the so-called "sunshine vitamin" whose deficits are increasingly blamed for everything from cancer and heart disease to diabetes, according to new research.

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QNGQM TIL, Australia was not a paradise for women and children pre-colonialism. Absolutely heartbreaking article.
9YXgD TIL that during Napoleon's exile on Saint Helena, no ship could leave the island until the governor laid eyes on him to make sure he doesn't escape. Napoleon sometimes hid just to cause problems to ships trying to leave the harbour
awBVM TIL Jon Stewart appeared on CNN's "Crossfire" in 2004 and criticized how damaging it was to society, becoming one of the main reasons it was cancelled three months later.
0JKR TIL that one of the first scientists to discover nitrous oxide completely missed its use as an anesthetic because he ended up just using it to get high (having first experimented on it to see if it could cure hangovers)
6EAkl TIL the story of the Good Samaritan is not about the importance of helping people in need, but about how the people we despise can turn out to be heroes.