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TIL 70% of Americans are either overweight or obese

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wLjrE TIL that Russian scientists discovered a Nazi base in the Arctic named "Schatzgraber" (Treasure Hunter). Officially a weather station the site was abandoned when staff manning the site was said to have eaten raw polar bear meat that was contaminated with roundworms.
4X5a5 TIL Arabic numerals (our numbers today) were first popularized in Europe by Fibonacci when he learned about them in Algeria.
nOQY TIL canned food may last decades longer than the expiration dates suggest
wNb8 TIL U.S. Medal of Honor recipient Pililaʻau was found surrounded by 40 dead Korean soldiers and him holding a trench knife.
v1nJD TIL research found that 94% of British people said they had conversed about the weather in the past six hours, and 38% said they had in the past 60 minutes. This means at any moment in the UK, a third of the population is either talking about the weather, has already done so or are about to do so.