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TIL That 80.4% of Samoan adults are obese
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TIL that during WW2, the Irish Republican Army attempted to collaborate with the Nazis, and even prepared an invasion plan to assist the German invasion of Northern Ireland.
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TIL there is a clock being built inside of a mountain that is designed to tick for 10,000 years, and play a unique melody that never repeats itself.
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TIL There are currently 98 listed belief emblems for military headstones
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TIL Of a Chinese dog named Saihu, who ate food and died to demonstrate it was poisoned after trying to warn people by barking at the chef. She was buried in a human graveyard with a memorial statue.
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TIL that before the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima, a B29 weather reconnaissance plane called Straight Flush flew over the city to determine if conditions were favourable. Its pilot, Claude Eatherly later expressed remorse, received psychiatric hospitalisation, and engaged in anti-nuclear activism.