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TIL there is a type 3 diabetes that is severely under-diagnosed. It is linked to problems with the pancreas specifically.

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1a6vV Almost nothing looks more orderly than chess pieces before a match starts. The first move, however, begins a spiral into chaos. After both players move, 400 possible board setups exist. After the second pair of turns, there are 197,742 possible games, and after three moves, 121 million. At every turn, players chart a progressively more distinctive path, and each game evolves into one that has probably never been played before.
dw6K TIL there was a ‘Little Ice Age’ in the 1810s, that ended in a year without summer. It was dubbed “Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death”
rRelW TIL Ed O'Neill used to make birthday phone calls to fans of ‘Married With Children’ in character, and in true Al Bundy nature, he only called them collect.
lolpa TIL white people make up 6.5% of the total world population
YpjnG TIL about the Battle of Manila Bay (1898) which was a decisive victory for the US Navy where they sunk all seven Spanish cruisers plus a transport ship and only lost one American life: Chief Engineer Francis B. Randall, who died of a heart attack.