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TIL The average 70-year-old Inuit with a traditional diet of whale and seal has arteries as elastic as those of a 20-year-old Danish resident.

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X0LJ8 TIL that singer Dionne Warwick, upset with misogyny in rap lyrics, once set up a meeting with Snoop Dogg and Suge Knight at her home, where she demanded that they call her a “bitch” to her face. Snoop Dogg later said “I believe we got out-gangstered that day.”
6mWJ TIL that when our brains are tired, they are capable of thinking more creatively than when they are not tired.
v1XRB TIL that the Soviet Union allowed theaters to play The Grapes of Wrath because of its depiction of the plight of the poor under capitalism, but it was later withdrawn because Russian audiences were amazed that even the poorest Americans could afford a car.
oBeBR TIL that tattoo pigments can be transported through the lymphatic system and deposited in the lymph nodes where it then stains the lymph node tissue. This effect was observed in tissue samples taken from cadavers.
X8pD TIL that Rosa Parks was sitting in the colored section of the bus during the infamous incident in Montgomery; she was asked to vacate her seat, in the front row of the colored section, because the white portion of the bus was filled.