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TIL Harvard scientists have proven that detox diets or “juicing” doesn’t work… and that there is no basis in human biology that indicates fasting is a healthy way to detox the body

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D1GgJ TIL about Henry Tandey, the most highly decorated British private of World World I, who also became famous for supposedly not killing Adolf Hitler, then a German soldier, when he encountered him in Marcoing, France. However, Tandey's biographer and others believe the story is an urban legend.
4Maw TIL During the Second World War, Pablo Picasso remained in Paris while the Germans occupied the city. During one search of his apartment, a German officer saw a photograph of the painting Guernica. “Did you do that?” the German asked Picasso. To which he replied “No, you did”.
vPPRR TIL that Tony Iommi guitarist for Black Sabbath used melted down plastic liquid soap bottles to create prosthetic fingertips after two of them got chopped off while he was working in a factory.
OLyR TIL Churchill in WW2 ordered all German Air Ambulances, painted white with red cross (Seenotdienst Search and Rescue) to be shot down when encountered
9wLXm TIL West Caribbean Flight 708, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 crashed in Machiques, Venezuela after entering a Deep stall, a occurrence in some aircraft that causes them to enter a near-unrecoverable stall, killing all 160 on board.