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TIL obesity can impact the size of your brain.

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j6MQv TIL in 1968 the state of Florida began to build a gigantic airport for supersonic jets in the Florida Everglades but was stopped by an environmental coalition after a federal report found the project would “inexorably destroy the south Florida ecosystem” and the Everglades
5Ybvp TIL Spaghetti Westerns are named for being primarily produced by Italians. In Japan, they're called "Macaroni Westerns."
exBE TIL If you denounce a Mexican drug cartel on social media they might kill you.
W7gJA TIL that the two major political parties/groupings in Victorian Britain used gentlemen's social clubs as their official headquarters, complete with printing presses and mail franking, whilst horse-drawn cabs ferried MPs from the club to Parliament for votes in 8 minutes flat.
yV9J TIL there is a highly venomous spider in Australia whose fangs are able to penetrate a shoe.