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TIL employers are sometimes less inclined to hire somebody who is overweight

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5VYLQ TIL The space probe Voyager 2 looses about 4 watts of power annually due to natural decay of its nuclear fuel.
OGLMg TIL that, in 1946, Ho Chi Min reached out to President Harry S. Truman and requested the United States’ support in ending French rule in Vietnam.
N8Y1 TIL that pre-columbian population of the Americas is estimated to have been 50-100 million people. 90% of the indigenous population died from diseases imported by europeans, most of which got infected and died without direct contact - fuelling the legend of an empty continent ready to be seized
KygB TIL that the Australian military has never fought a human opponent on Australian soil.
gMVK8 TIL about pioneer James Young, a black man who was born into slavery, and would later move into Tombstone, Arizona, where he become a miner, ranch worker, hostler, indian scout, bodyguard, buffalo soldier, and a boxer who was the only black man to fight heavyweight world champion, John L Sullivan.