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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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Ky89 TIL: John Delorean (designer of the Delorean DMC-12 “back to the future” car) was arrested for conspiracy to traffic narcotics, after being set up by FBI. Delorean was saved from prison after publisher Larry Flynt obtained and released tapes and documents that proved his innocence.
ZBpv TIL Queen Victoria survived 8 assassination attempts, 3 of which occurred within 5 weeks of each other, and 1 involving a British army officer who hit her over the head with a cane.
WkBPo TIL that a large pride of Lions native to the Savute area of Botswana specialize in hunting adult elephants
9wkl6 TIL that while typing on your mobile phone you can slide on the space bar to move the cursor.
mk7v TIL that an elephant’s ability to smell water is so refined, they can sometimes detect water sources from as much as 12 miles away