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TIL the fattest country in the world isn’t the USA… it’s Kuwait. The second is Saudi Arabia, with 72% of those over 40 classified as “clinically obese”.

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D1eGj TIL that The Hulk was inspired by a woman. Jack Kirby created the character after watching a woman lift a car off of her child, who was trapped underneath.
QJGWa TIL Half of the men in the famous photo "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima" were dead less than a week after the photo was taken.
p8E5b TIL in a study of 1,000s, the score for "dark triad" (narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy) was subtracted from "light triad" (Kantianism, Faith in Humanity, Humanism) to an avg. balance of 1.3, suggesting the avg. human tends to the light more than the dark.
4gg6 TIL that Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t celebrate birthdays because the only two accounts of birthday parties in the Bible resulted in murder
9Y8l6 TIL in 1974, a then largely unknown Queen were booed and heckled at a music festival in Australia. Freddie Mercury told the audience, "When we come back to Australia, we will be the biggest band in the world!" Queen would return after debuting their smash hit Bohemian Rhapsody just two years later.