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TIL That the body mass index was invented in 1830 and 1850 by a Belgian mathematician, astronomer and statistician and not a physician.

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oR5vA TIL that flight crews who are unfamiliar with each other are more prone to making errors.
jN7ba TIL Huaxi Village is the so-called richest village in China. Founded in 1961 by Wu Renbao, Huaxi touts itself as a model of Chinese communism. The citizens enjoy a high quality of life, most having well over $100,000 in their bank accounts, living in mansions, and driving expensive European cars.
ME40 TIL Cartoon Network banned an episode of Cow and Chicken called “Buffalo Gals” which allegedly implied lesbian stereotypes including the Gals being mistaken for men and the line “Oh! the Buffalo Gals, a motorcycle riding gang that randomly breaks into people’s homes and chews on their carpets.”
d4Lj TIL an American POW repeatedly blinked his eyes in Morse Code during a televised interview, spelling out the word, “T-O-R-T-U-R-E.”
69oM7 TIL , the rate of divorce for marriages involving an American husband and a Japanese wife stand at 32%, which is lower than the rate of divorce between Japanese citizens