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TIL the 'Healthiest hearts in the world' were found in a Bolivian forest people, who get 72% of their energy from carbohydrates, which is the exact opposite to many recent suggestions that carbohydrates are unhealthy.

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DQgdD TiL statues in Italy, like the famous Pasquino, are known as talking statues because of the practice of Italians leaving notes attached to them containing their grievances. This practice goes back to the 16th century and was traditionally targeted at grievances towards the Pope.
m1W8Y TIL in 2012, the remainder of the Wilhelm Unger Games in Germany were cancelled after a referee was running to measure the distance of a javelin throw while it was still in the air and was struck in the face and throat by it. The referee died after being taken to the hospital.
Z8ZOD TIL of Black Bart, an outlaw who successfully robbed 28 stagecoaches and left this poem in one of them: I've labored long and hard for bread / For honor, and for riches / But on my corns too long you've tread / You fine-haired sons of bitches.
4XJ5a TIL that when the first white man came back to describe Yellow Stone and consequentially its geothermal features, his report was considered fictional. The same also happened for the second non-native.
jNpVn TIL a California man got 'NULL' as a personalized license plate hoping that 'NULL' would confuse the computer system. Instead, when cops left the plate number info empty on a ticket or citation, the fine went to him. He got over $12k fines sent to him his first year.