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TIL 70% of Americans are either overweight or obese

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Br4pD TIL that both the penny and the nickel cost more to make than they're worth, and that up to 1982 the metal in a penny was worth more than the penny itself.
b6WXE TIL A Chicago man who bought $1,000 in stock about 70 years ago has given the resulting $2 million to a wildlife charity
wLYVP TIL "in Russia, Norway and many northern and eastern European countries synchronized clapping is more popular than random clapping."
j6V4n TIL Humans consume the equivalent of a credit card worth of plastic every week: Report
R7jOa TIL Jesse Owens gave 1 of his 4 Olympic gold medals to Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, he gavethe other 3 to a hotel owner in Philadelphia to pay for his outstanding bill at the hotel, and one of his medals sold for $615,000 in Dec 2019.