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TIL that a study of directly measured height and weight data, as opposed to self-reported data, revealed that Midwesterners are fatter than Southerners

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4XAda TIL the Mediterranean had dried up and been refilled by Atlantic for at least 69 times due to the total close up and re-open of the Strait of Gibraltar. at its prime time, the Atlantic-Gibraltar waterfall was 1000 times bigger than Niagara.
LkVoQ TIL that between the 11th and 19th centuries, Buddhist monks in northern Japan practiced a kind of meditation called Sokushinbutsu, in which they would mummify themselves alive by slowly weaning themselves off food and water before eventually starving to death
ApX4 TIL that South Africans call Traffic Lights “Robots”.
695Wl TIL of Eddie Futch who trained four of the five fighters (Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Larry Holmes and Trevor Berbick), who defeated Muhammad Ali.
0AgL TIL the Blob movie is based on a police report from 4 Philadelphia police officers who witnessed a glittering, glowing, humming , purple glob that had fallen from the sky. It tried to climb a phone pole but evaporated when they touched it.