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TIL obesity can impact the size of your brain.

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o1MA TIL 86 year old mathmetician/pianist Tom Lehrer invented the Jell-O shot to circumvent rules against alcohol in the Army.
xDx7 TIL John Lennon never said “Ringo isn’t the best drummer in the world. He isn’t even the best drummer in the Beatles”. It was uttered by British comedian Jasper Carrott in 1983. Three years after Lennon’s death.
Aya7 TIL Pablo Picasso’s 1932 painting “La Lecture” depicts Picasso’s mistress asleep with a book upon her lap. The painting led to the breakup of Picasso’s marriage after his wife saw it at an exhibition and realized that the facial features (though highly stylized) were not her own.
8aJXX TIL that "Corolla" means "little crown" in Latin, and "innermost ring of flower petals" in English
v1lKr TIL: Uranus was originally name "George" by its founder in honour his patron King George III