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TIL that there is not much science backing the idea that salt is bad for you.

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Q4Gp TIL Jocelyn Bell Burnell, the astronomer to discover pulsars, was denied the Nobel Prize in preference of her thesis supervisor; a man who believed they were caused by aliens.
9YLd7 TIL "to stan" is an actual verb found in dictionnaries. "To stan;stanned; stanning; stans" means "to exhibit fandom to an extreme or excessive degree: to be an extremely devoted and enthusiastic fan of someone or something." It comes from the 2000 song "Stan" by Eminem.
GAr8J TIL about Operation Downfall, a plan by the USA to invade mainland Japan during WW2 which was planned to start in November 1945
JYQo1 TIL ice-cream manufacturers mix messed up batches of ice-cream in with chocolate ice-cream so they don't have to throw it away
M7ea0 TIL That the United Fruit Company spent over half a million dollars back in 1950 (almost 6 million in 2022) to convince lawmakers and the American public that the Guatemalan government needed to be overthrown. President Truman eventually authorized the CIA to effect a Guatemalan coup d'état in 1952.