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TIL that a BMI of 23 for a South Asian is equivalent to 30 (obese) in a White European for risk of diabetes.

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LQLE9 TIL that Tennessee, Utah, Florida, Indiana, and South Carolina license plates reverse order of numbers vs letters based on if the plate has In God We Trust on it.
vbrR TIL there is a formation in Antartica colloquially referred to as “Una’s Tits”, named after a woman who worked in the British Antarcic office.
awel0 TIL that Milton Friedman served as an advisor to Chilean Dictator Augusto Pinochet did not criticize Pinochet's dictatorship at the time, nor the assassinations, illegal imprisonments, torture, or other atrocities that were well known by then.
bMZ4 TIL LAX has an X at the end because before the 1930s airports had two letter identifiers. When identifiers were switched to three letters, many just added an X at the end.
Ooo81 TIL Indian sadhu, Prahlad Jani, claims to have lived without food and water since 1940 and have passed scientific tests in 2010 where he lived for 15 days without food/water while under doctor observation.