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TIL About 1 in 9 people age 65 and older have Alzheimer's.

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99DX TIL Cardiovascular disease is 80% preventable through diet and exercise
x6On1 TIL that in 2002, Australia won its first-ever winter Olympic gold medal. It happened during the 1000m short track speed skating event, when over the course of the race all the competitors crashed, except for Australian Steven Bradbury.
4XbDb TIL a man was stabbed to death by a chicken wielding a knife while spectating an illegal cockfight in 2011
a8xNo TIL stars don't move during space travel as in movies. As Apollo astronauts looked out the window while speeding toward the moon, it looked like they were motionless because the stars didn't move.
x6XQb TIL approximately 73% of the mass of the visible universe is in the form of hydrogen. Helium makes up about 25% of the mass, and everything else represents only 2%. Most of the atoms in our bodies and Earth are a part of this small portion of the matter of the universe