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TIL We live in a time period where we have the most information about nutrition and exercise in human history at our fingertips but over 66% of the U.S. population is overweight.

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dlRE TIL Hunter S Thompson refused to go on Conan O'Brien show until he finally agreed on one condition. Conan had to meet him on a remote farm to drink hard liquor and shoot guns.
4XJEN TIL the famous Old West gunslinger John Wesley Hardin studied law while in prison, and became an attorney in Gonzales, TX once he was released.
woKW6 TIL 1985 remains one of the deadliest years in aviation history for aviation disasters, including the crash of Japan Airlines Flight 123 (520 people killed), a mid-air collision between Aeroflot Flight 8381 and a transport aircraft (94), the hijacking of Egyptair Flight 648 (60), among others
16W98 TIL that Hollywood's first Chinese-American film star Anna May Wong had to support herself by becoming an Australian vaudeville chanteuse, a British theatrical luminary and a B-film pulp diva because of the shortage of roles for Asian actors and Hollywood tending to cast white actors in those roles
9JXG TIL when a marine asked his friend to watch his house while he was gone the friend decided to do $70,000 worth of renovations on it.