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TIL Pakistan has the highest percentage of population with Diabetes ~ 30%. And 3rd highest with number of Diabetic Patients ~ 33 million.

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5A6D TIL Red Lobster lost $3.3 million dollars during a 7 week promotion in 2003. Each restaurant started losing money on the third plate of crab legs served.
b6XoQ TIL of the Testament of Peter the Great, a fabricated document alleged to reflect Russian plans for world domination throughout the 18th and 19th centuries
lyQN TIL In the 1940’s, activist Stetson Kennedy infiltrated the KKK, then approached the writers of Superman, and exposed secret codes and rituals. KKK recruitment dropped to zero in weeks.
e0eak TIL that around the year 1500, Leonardo da Vinci designed a robot
QNlrL TIL about the International Affective Picture System (IAPS), a large set of photos with subjects from the mundane (a basket or someone at the beach) to the provocative (burn victims or erotic nudes) used by researchers to elicit and study various emotional responses.