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TIL The Greek physician Hippocrates noted that naturally fat people tend to die ealier than those who are slender. It is also better to be larger when young but a smaller stature is better in old age

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aJWJ TIL: Dionysus, the son of Zeus, was: born of a virgin on the 25th December in a manger; performed miracles including turning water into wine; was referred to as the “saviour” and “king of kings”; and was killed and rose from the dead after three days to ascend to heaven; 1,000 years before Christ.
M6KW TIL Alfred Hitchcock wrote a story for Look magazine in 1943 called “The Murder of Monty Woolley”. It was a sequence of captioned photographs inviting the reader to inspect the photos for clues to the murderer’s identity.
Y7vNr TIL that in 2014, "Good Grief" was to be a reality TV show following a family owned mortuary, but never aired due to the stars of the show having been evicted from their building, leaving behind eight decaying bodies, and being convicted of having abused a corpse.
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