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TIL A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.

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Y7Jkd TIL obesity was associated with $1,861 excess yearly health costs per person, accounting for $172.74 billion in annual extra costs
1a0XP TIL that waste warriors, a group of volunteers in India has cleaned more than 200 tonnes of plastic waste from Himalayas
5VAbr TIL that after the Allies invaded North Africa in WW2, the Germans planned to use the powerful French navy to counterattack. The occupied French responded by scuttling their own fleet, destroying 77 ships and damaging many more. Ships burned for days, and the harbor was heavily polluted for years.
EGZV TIL that from the 1860s to the mid 1970s many US cities had ‘Ugly Laws’ making it illegal for people with visible disabilities to appear in public
p8pAe TIL that in September 1945 Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett defied US restrictions and snuck into Hiroshima by train. Burchett was the first to tell the world about the effects of radiation on the victims of the bombing, which the US denied both before and after his story was published.