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TIL that the Guinness World Records no longer recognize the fattest animal as a record in order to prevent compulsive overeating.

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R7eej TIL about Democritus (460-370BCE), an Ancient Greek philosopher known for his atomic theory of the universe. He was a nobody in Athens and Plato is said to have wanted all his books destroyed.
logBK TIL what a gag order is
mx9dy TIL in the early 1970s Bulgarian engineers invented an electric car that could run for 240km on a single trip and had revolutionary battery
VBBp8 TIL The Greek physician Hippocrates noted that naturally fat people tend to die ealier than those who are slender. It is also better to be larger when young but a smaller stature is better in old age
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