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TIL American Evangelicals help fund violent anti-gay movement in Uganda

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5VdNk TIL the first widely-reported recipe for "dishwasher fish" was presented by horror icon Vincent Price on a 1975 episode of The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. He called it "a dish any fool can prepare".
QNeM6 TIL The Turkish Army formerly issued fines to families of soldiers who committed suicide, demanding them to pay for the bullet that they used, although they abolished that practice under pressure
VWlm TIL there is a species of orchid which produces a narcotic nectar to cause a drug addiction in their wasp pollinators.
OX9X TIL in 1972, a British nutritionist published a book called Pure, White & Deadly in which he warns about the dangers of sugar and advises following a low-carbohydrate diet for weight loss. It would take over 40 years for his work to be recognized by other scientists.
OK7X TIL that neanderthals didn’t rely on lightning strikes to make fire, instead, they used chemistry, by putting manganese dioxide on wood to lower the temperature required to create a flame.