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TIL there is a new category of obesity above morbidly obese called super obese

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WkXB TIL that 390,000 UK citizens reported their religion as “Jedi” in a 2001 census.
7rrXO I mean, it's not just me, right?
gMD4 TIL Everyone used to sleep twice in once night, they would wake up at midnight to have sex and read or tell stories.
x6QDo TIL British military scientists sent hundreds of Indian soldiers into gas chambers and exposed them to mustard gas and did not check up on the Indian soldiers after the experiments to see if they developed any illnesses. It is now recognised that mustard gas can cause cancer and other diseases.
70pP TIL in 1959, a segregationist school board shuttered its district rather than allow black students; whites took school vouchers and attended a local private academy (which did not integrate until 1986)