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TIL successful model Ana Carolina Reston who at the time of her death weighed 88lbs and stood 5'8" had a bmi of 13.4. The WHO considers a bmi of 16 to starvation.

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nNLo TIL Astronomer Tycho Brahe had a pet elk, which drunkenly fell down a set of stairs to its death.
l71LA TIL about the Rosenhahn Experiment, where several researchers feigned psychiatric symptoms and were admitted to psychiatric hospitals, only to immediately act normal after admission. None of the staff identified the researchers as impostors, and many had difficulty getting released later.
NX5LE TIL a Finnish nursing home ran a small project where they gave subsidised accommodation to students with the agreement that they would spend time with the elderly
6EVLY TIL Melvil Dewey, the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System, was kicked out of the American Library Association for constant unwelcome advances towards women librarians.
vP8W4 TIL on November 12, 1833, there was a meteor shower so intense that it was described as meteors "falling like snowflakes". It was so intense that it was thought to be the end of the world, but at the same time it gave birth to the study of meteor astronomy.