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TIL The Guinness World Records has stopped awarding the fattest cats or any other animal to discourage deliberate overfeeding.

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ZOKQ TIL Approximately half of the atoms in our bodies originated in the Milky Way, while the other half are from other galaxies.
L7lv TIL TWA Flight 541 was hijacked in 1978 by the daughter of a woman who was killed while hijacking a helicopter to free a federal prisoner, who was in prison for hijacking a TWA flight in 1972.
kJnJE TIL, Robert Todd Lincoln (son of Abraham Lincoln) once provided legal assistance to George Washington Custis Lee (son of Robert E. Lee) in a legal case against the US Federal Government regarding Lee’s family mansion
1dWr TIL at one point in the 1990’s, 50% of the CD’s produced worldwide had an AOL logo on it
wL5d6 TIL: Loneliness is a greater public health hazard than obesity