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TIL that people of normal weight with the apple body shape are at higher risk of death than overweight or obese people with pear or hourglass shaped bodies

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gr09A TIL there is actually a Lime Disease, not caused by deer ticks, but by exposure to lime juice and UV light
y1Zp TIL that many records in track and field including the long jump and high jump are unlikely to be broken due to modern athletes gravitating towards higher money sports such as sprinting or football.
QJDWp TIL: In the Rock, Paper, Scissors game, on the first throw, paper is the best choice. Paper ties with paper and statistically, scissors is the least popular choice overall. Also, men favor rock.
epEDD Today I learned that the United Kingdom and the State of Oregon have close to the same land mass. But Oregon population has only has about 4.25 million to the UK’s 68 million.
E1AMx TIL that Archimedes of Syracuse discovered Calculus 2000 years before Newton did, however this knowledge was unknown until 1907 when a book containing some of his lost works was found in Constantinoples.