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TIL Ironically, Hypoglycemia is one of the serious complications of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and even leads to death.

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o7GA TIL, according to scientists, this is the most relaxing tune ever recorded. In test subjects, it reduced anxiety by 65% and supposedly induces a trance-like state.
vrPr TIL the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird was so fast that the standard evasive action in case a surface-to-air missile launch was detected was simply to accelerate and outfly the missile
b4ba TIL that after the Treaty of Versailles, Marshal Ferdinand Foch said “This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years”. 20 years and 65 days later, WW2 broke out.
nWpmo TIL that a basketball player, Boban Janković, frustrated with his fifth foul, slammed his head into a padded concrete post, leaving him unable to walk for the rest of his life.
W7x48 TIL that Rose's lime juice was the world's first commercially produced fruit concentrate.