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TIL the 2019 adult obesity rate of the USA's least obese state (Colorado; 23.8%) is comparable to the 2000 adult obesity rate of the most obese state (West Virginia; 23.9%).

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9kKQ TIL during the Cold War, Nikita Khrushchev said to Mao Zedong that “Berlin is the testicles of the West. Every time I want to make the West scream, I squeeze on Berlin.”
NXy96 TIL that by his second marriage, Napoleon became the great-nephew-in-law of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette.
JY5yj TIL Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI got married "by proxy". The wedding took place in Vienna, with Marie Antoinette's brother standing in for the groom at the altar. Louis was in France at the time
OdeR TIL an iPhone has about 75 elements in it — two-thirds of the periodic table.
GYGa5 TIL in guide dog "training camp", puppies with the least attention from the mother dog were the most likely to become guide dogs; whereeas puppies who received the most licks and milk from mom tended to be seeing-eye dog washouts.