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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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9wVjQ TIL about Hum, Croatia which is the smallest town in the world. The town is smaller than a football field and has a population of just two dozen people. Even so, Hum has a museum, an inn, two churches, and even a unique liqueur called biska which can't be found anywhere else in the world.
jgxR TIL Dwayne Johnson’s grandfather was also a professional wrestler, “High Chief” Peter Maivia, making The Rock a third-generation wrestler. In fact, he was the WWF’s first third-generation wrestler, and was heavily hyped upon his professional arrival.
neXK7 TIL in 1943, Stanisława Leszczyńska, a Polish Catholic and professional midwife, was arrested by the Gestapo for aiding Jews. Sent to Auschwitz, she was assigned to work at the camp’s “maternity ward” and spent the remainder of the war delivering three thousand babies in unthinkable conditions
J1DxB TIL that forty years passed from the date of Jesus' crucifixion before any written account of his life and teachings was put to paper.
J1nnl TIL - Rudolph the red nose reindeer there was a storyline about Yukon Cornelius finding a peppermint mine which would be deleted. In the special, you can still see Cornelius licking his pickaxe, but without mention of the peppermint mind viewers are left to wonder why exactly he’s doing that.