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TIL potato chips cause more weight gain than any other food

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VMOKp TIL the father of billionaire and Democratic presidential candidate Tom Steyer, Roy Henry Steyer, was a prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials
1aGLr TIL that if you get a blood transfusion with the wrong blood type a strong sense of impending doom will likely occur.
nbQd TIL that the war scenes in the movie Saving Private Ryan was claimed by many WW2 veterans and historians to be the most accurate depiction of war in any war movie they’ve seen.
b9QVE TIL that most of Sam Jones' lines in Flash Gordon were dubbed by another (unknown?) actor, after quitting before the movie was finished and that George Lucas had originally wanted to make it, but went to to film Star Wars instead, which also had a famously (deliberately, this time) dubbed actor. #20
x6LnB TIL that there is an Episcopal saint, Rev. Charles Carroll Parsons, who was at one point the defense council to Lieutenant Colonel Custer who died at the Battle of Little Big Horn.