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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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69VXQ TIL The national flag of Nepal is the world's only non-rectangular flag. The flag is a simplified combination of two single pennons (or pennants), known as a double-pennon.
E7Ld TIL Tom Selleck was originally offered the role to play Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark but became unavailable for the part because of his commitment to the television series Magnum, P.I.
MeYp8 TIL an HIV-positive New Zealand man pricked his sleeping wife with a needle tainted with his blood, infecting her with the virus in hopes that she would have sex with him again.
BK8W TIL of ‘mudita’, a word meaning the joy of another person’s joy, the opposite of envy.
nekxG TIL, during the production of "Reds", Warren Beatty explained to the extras what the film was about. After a lecture on the rights of the working man, the extras refused to return to work, saying that they felt exploited. Beatty agreed to increase their wages.