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TIL American is not actually the most obese country in the world; it actually ranks 18th in obesity prevalence

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gMN6D TIL that despite leading the Confederate attack that started the American Civil War, P. G. T. Beauregard later became an advocate for black civil rights and suffrage.
D1gOe TIL Rapper G. Dep killed a man in 1993. Plagued by guilt, he tried to confess to the crime in 2010. The police did nothing. So two weeks later he went back to the station to confess again. The second time they matched his account to a cold case and charged him with murder.
4Ag5 TIL there is a giant geoglyph in Australia that was discovered in 1998 and is miles tall. No one knows who created it.
ADZLB TIL actress Jamie Lee Curtis is a noblewoman by marriage to Spinal Tap's Christopher Guest who is a Lord by birthright
E1lwp TIL that an Indian man tried to sue his parents for giving birth to him without his consent