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TIL that there is little evidence that antioxidants in the diet prevent disease. Some antioxidant supplements actually increased lung cancer rates in smokers, while others increased rates of heart failure and stroke.

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VQlB TIL the music video of runaway train (Soul Asylum) helped locate 26 missing children. It was so effective 6 different versions were made!
b9BaQ TIL that there exists a photograph of a baby with his mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, great-great-grandmother, and great-great-great-grandmother.
0wB4j TIL The UK gambling industry spends £1.5 billion a year on advertising, and 60% of its profits come from the 5% who are already problem gamblers
PWYg TIL an influential Islamic philosophical movement in 8th century Iraq declared the perfect human to be “of Persian derivation, Arabic faith, Hebrew in astuteness, a disciple of Christ in conduct, as pious as a Syrian monk, a Greek in natural sciences, an Indian in the interpretation of mysteries.
apZA TIL that a positive pregnancy test on a man could indicate testicular cancer