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TIL Compared with whites, Blacks had 51% higher and Hispanics had 21% higher obesity rates in the US.

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b6gB0 TIL not long after the Vietnam War, Vietnam’s army invaded Cambodia and stopped a genocide.
PYXZJ TIL when Blazing Saddles was shown on TV, they took out the flatulent symphony in the famous beans scene, leaving a bunch of cowboys standing up and sitting down, like a weird, silent, Western ballet.
4RRb TIL during the Cuban missile crisis a Soviet Submarine came under attack from depth charges, the captain assumed WW3 had started and prepared to launch a nuclear weapon, his executive officer overruled him. It turned out the depth charges were training rounds being used to signal them to surface.
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