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TIL that 74% of men and 64% of women in the U.S. are obese or overweight, according to the National Institutes of Health

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9gPp TIL a fully loaded C-130 Hercules can carry $2.4b in cash. In 2003, twenty-one shipments of American cash totaling 363 tonnes were flown into Iraq. $6.6b of that money is totally unaccounted for and could be the largest cash theft in American history.
j6V9n TIL that the difference between a roth and traditional IRA is that you contribute taxed dollars to a roth IRA and don't get taxed when you withdraw, whereas a traditional IRA is taxed with pre-taxed dollars but you get taxed in the tax bracket you're in at the time of your withdrawal.
78RNX TIL Ludwig van Beethoven didn't get along with his brother Johann and was heavily opposed to his marriage to a housekeeper. After the purchase of an estate, Johann signed a letter to Ludwig "From your brother Johann, landowner". Ludwig signed his reply, "From your brother Ludwig, brain owner".
4jwJ TIL Gauss personal diaries indicate that he had made several important math discoveries years/decades before his contemporaries published them. Math Historian Temple Bell said that if Gauss had published all of his discoveries in a timely manner, he would have advanced mathematics by 50 years.
rvAy TIL Albert Einstein once declared that his second best idea after the theory of relativity was adding an egg to his soup while it was cooking so he wouldn’t have an extra pot to wash afterwards