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TIL a lack of friends carries a higher risk of death than obesity and is the equivalent health risk of smoking 15 cigarettes a day.

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rN1m0 TIL Mayan's ritualistically put intoxicating drugs up their butt via clay pot enemas. (Updated Source)
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PYlGn TIL that when China ordered a Boeing 767 from the U.S. in 2002 to serve as its presidential jet, its intelligence service discovered nearly 30 bugging devices onboard the plane, "including one in the headboard of the presidential bed." The C.I.A. and the White House refused to comment.