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TIL potato chips cause more weight gain than any other food

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e0vXn TIL about Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem, who agreed to annul her marriage to Guy de Lusignan to appease the High Court, on the condition that she have free rein to choose her next husband after her coronation. Upon being crowned queen, Sibylla immediately announced that she chose Guy as her husband.
JjL8 TIL Operation Northwood - called for innocent people to be shot on American streets; for a wave of violent terrorism to be launched in Washington, D.C., planes would be hijacked. Using phony evidence, all of it would be blamed on Castro, thus giving Lemnitzer and his cabal the excuse for war.
15vP TIL that the United States has less than 5% of the world’s population, but almost a quarter of the world’s prisoners. The United States has more citizens in prison than any other country in the world.
EgnpP TIL that in 2005, Paleontologist Mary Schweitzer of North Carolina State University found collagen fibers in the fossilized leg bone of a Tyrannosaurus rex.
Eg5K7 TIL that laughter is a universal language! A study found that even babies as young as six months can recognize different types of laughter.