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TIL Cardiovascular disease is 80% preventable through diet and exercise

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b6onQ TIL: About the 1998 Balleny Island earthquake, the largest recorded earthquake to strike Antarctica
ep075 TIL French composer Olivier Messiaen wrote his avant garde masterpiece "Quartet For The End Of Time", inspired by Book Of Revelation and birdsong, on a prisoner-of-war camp in Görlitz, Germany on the available instruments. It was also premiered there in 1941.
XwNP TIL that a High School student served 5 years in jail and had to register as a sex offender after being falsely accused of rape by a classmate of his, because she didn’t want her mother to know she was sexually active.
m1k6v TIL-Foot Binding in China lasted for 1000 years. The last "lotus shoe" store closed in 1999.
x6JWB TIL about Garoé, a tree of unknown species, revered by the ancient Bimbache Indians on the island of El Hierro in the Canary Islands, which was said to have the power to generate rain and provide water like a fountain. was the only way these people could get water.