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TIL about the "friendship paradox" which states that most people have fewer friends than their friends

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W7Jd8 TIL: A woman born with birth defects caused by Chernobyl including 6 toes, webbed fingers, no thumbs, leg 15cm shorter than the other, and missing some organs, won a gold medal in the paralympics for cross-country skiiing
8a75V TIL in the Beatles song Let it Be, "Mother Mary" is actually not a reference to the Virgin Mary. It instead refers to Paul's actual mother, Mary, who died when he was young. The song was inspired by a dream in which she gave him the advice "It will be all right, just let it be".
VM5X4 TIL: Horses only have one toe on each foot
b6kxQ TIL during WW2, Imperial Japan experimented with entomological warfare by attacking two Chinese territories with bombs filled with cholera-carrying houseflies. The attacks each killed over 200,000 people in the ensuing epidemics.
j5La TIL that the US military recruits more people per capita from the Federated States of Micronesia than from any US state.