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TIL that there is a scuba club in Muff, England called the Muff Diving Club.

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XDZX TIL that strongest predictor of the obesity rise in the US is the decline in cigarette smoking (when considering between employment, physical activity at work, food prices, the prevalence of restaurants, cigarette smoking, cigarette prices and taxes, food stamp receipt, and urbanization.)
ANYod TIL Norway sends The UK a christmas tree every year to thank UK for saving Norway in WW2
9666 TIL hundreds of chimpanzees were bred for AIDS research in the 1980s, only to find out that HIV doesn’t cause AIDS in chimps.
4XAMb TIL of the Rosenhan Experiment, in which a psychologist David Rosenhan and seven other pseudo-patients faked their mental illnesses and gained admission into various psychiatric hospitals, as a criticism of the methods of psychiatric diagnosis.
6EZG8 TIL In Vermont public nudity is legal if you leave the house naked, but public disrobing is illegal