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TIL that today’s children could have shorter average life spans than their parents, because so many suffer from obesity.

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71RO TIL a British supercentenarian died last year. Two months before his death, he told newspapers that he drank an elixir given to him by a doctor in Mumbai before WWI and was told, “drink this and you’ll live forever.”
XEQ78 TIL it took 128 attempts to get the script for The Simpsons episode "A Fish Called Selma" greenlit.
e0ZE4 TIL Pluto has five known moons. It is considered by many scientists to be a double planet system, because the largest moon, Charon, is so big (half the size of Pluto itself) that the two orbit a spot in between each other instead of Charon just orbiting Pluto like a smaller moon would.
Ax8w TIL Mankind has left 96 bags of urine, feces, and vomit on the moon.
4wvN TIL In 2013 a genetic test of fish in restaurants and supermarkets showed 84% of Sushi restaurants in the US mislabeled and replaced tuna with Escolar, a fish known to cause prolonged, uncontrollable oily anal leakage