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TIL that, if nobody was overweight, we could support 111 million more people without increasing energy production

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kO1KB TIL that the 25th Amendment of the US Constitution allows the Vice-President, supported by a simple majority of the 15 other members of the US Cabinet, to remove the US President from office and assume the Presidency himself immediately.
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