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TIL Most body fat exits the body through exhaling.

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GY5g TIL that between 1909 and 1964, more than 20,000 people California were declared “unfit to propagate” and were forced to be sterilized against their will for “race betterment”.
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j67Qv TIL Anaxagoras was one of the first to assert that the Moon reflected sunlight and did not produce light by itself; a statement translated as “the sun induces the moon with brightness” was found in his writings.
ADW1n TIL Many courses in German Universities are actually offered in English, and international students don’t even have to meet the German language requirements to apply. In Germany undergraduate students don’t pay any tuition fees in all the public universities since October 2014