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TIL 85% of fat people who met and married their spouse while Fat and later had Bariatric surgery, divorce their Spouse within 2 years of surgery

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gMJWX TIL of US Navy Admiral Boorda the first person to rise from the enlisted ranks to become Chief of Naval Operations who killed himself after being accused of wearing 2 unauthorized service ribbons
OoVPL TIL action movie star Steve McQueen was offered the leading role of Close Encounters by Steven Spielberg, but McQueen declined since he couldn't cry on cue. Spielberg offered to remove the scene but McQueen said it was the best part of the film.
kJ0Vd TIL the Normandy beach names of Utah & Omaha were selected at random, when a general asked two NCOs where they were from. The British & Canadian names were abbreviations for certain fish: goldfish, swordfish & jellyfish. Jelly was changed to Juno in honour of the wife of one of the officers
JBKV TIL: An artist attempted to hitchhike from Milan to the Middle East in a wedding dress to promote world peace. She was gang raped and murdered in Turkey. A Turkish newspaper said “Let’s face it, if Pippa were a Turk, some people would feel freer to say that a hitchhiking woman deserves to be raped.”
8eQj4 TIL Aristotle's History of Animals contains several facts that were deemed fantasy until the 19th century. Such observations include octopuses having a sperm tentacle and dogfish growing inside their mother's body. The book also has obvious errors like assuming flies have four legs.