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TIL that "Baby Huey" was a 400lbs Chicago soul singer who died at age 26 after releasing a single unsuccessful album. The album later became very influential on early hiphop artists, eventually being sampled on hundreds of hiphop tracks

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J4l TIL In 1968 in the midst of the Cold War a US B52 carrying four hydrogen bombs crashed onto sea ice in Greenland. The nuclear payload ruptured and dispersed, resulting in widespread radioactive contamination
9wlvr TIL of Ettore Majorana, an Italian theoretical physicist who predicted the existence of the neutron and neutrino before disappearing without a trace in 1938
GAp4E TIL that the width between the two sides of the House of Commons in British parliament is the length of two swords. It is believed that this was to prevent disputes from degenerating into duels.
OEG7 TIL that the number of people living in the USA that are illiterate is almost equal to the entire population of Canada (32,000,000 vs 35,000,000)
5wRR TIL That the idea of “slow metabolism” causing obesity is a myth and it is “innate laziness” or lower levels of Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis (NEAT) that causes weight gain