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TIL Iowa State's football stadium is the only one in Division I FBS football to be named after a Black person

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4XmnX TIL Between 1949 and 1951, the US and the UK airlifted 49,000 Yemenite Jews to safety in Israel
jAYM TIL that high-fiber diets work to lower your cholesterol in a roundabout way: by interfering with bile absorption in the intestines. Because the bile can’t get absorbed as well, the bile gets flushed out with your poop, and so the body makes more bile salts, using cholesterol as fuel.
bJLZ TIL a chemistry grad student accidentally synthesized the chemical MPTP and gave himself Parkinsonian Syndrome while trying to make opioids - accidentally advancing Parkinson’s research at his own expense
N7OOb TIL: Tadpoles make use of quantum tunneling in the enzymes used to break down their tail. This explains how it’s able to do it so quickly.
rmRo TIL Carlos Mencia is not Mexican, and his first name is Ned.