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TIL that BMI was invented by a French "mathematician" - not a physician - who hoped it would be used as the basis for eugnenics

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rM4W TIL of the French essayist and grammarian Dominique Bouhours, whose dying words were “I am about to - or I am going to - die: either expression is correct.”
LQBk9 TIL that humans can produce light through bioluminescence, but it's usually too faint for our eyes to detect.
4keJ5 TIL the movie No Hard Feelings stars royalty - Prince Achileas-Andreas of Greece and Denmark, grandson of the late King Constantine II.
lobdA TIL that The Simpsons had an official Death Note crossover comic in treehouse of horror #14 where Bart Simpson is Light Yagami and Lisa Simpson is L and Krusty the clown is Ryuk
ne5Jd TIL Japanese writer Kōbō Abe wrote surreal, often nightmarish explorations of individuals in contemporary society. His experiences in Manchuria deeply influenced his writing, imprinting terrors and fever dreams that became surrealist hallmarks of his works