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TIL: The average American woman now weighs as much as the average American man in the 1960s

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1aDx7 TIL of the Nightingale Pledge, a modified Hippocratic Oath named in honor of Florence Nightingale, US nurses take at their graduation ceremony
oBL4Y TIL that there’s a city in New Mexico named ‘Truth or Consequences’, the city chose to rename itself after a radio show contest in 1950.
OGPpR TIL According to the National Hole-in-One Registry, the odds of the average golfer making a hole-in-one (or ace) are 12,500 to 1 but a Tour player has a 3,000 to 1 chance of making an ace.
9AvG TIL that because weather moves West to East, the allies had a major advantage in WW2
W77X4 TIL 99.9% of the human body is made of just 11 elements