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TIL height in poor countries correlates with protein quantity and height in developed countries correlates with protein quality.

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rNLNM TIL a town in Colorado had an unelected mayor serve for over 50 years. He was appointed mayor pro tem because the then-mayor didn't want to sign liquor licenses, and inherited the post when the mayor died. The town considered doing an election in 1974, but it was too expensive.
BYBe TIL when filming Return of the Jedi, Carrie Fischer would get quite concerned for Warrick Davis, who was only 11 years old at the time, being in that hot Ewok suit, so she would have chocolate milk and cookies ready for him whenever they took a brake
woO4P TIL How Tammany Hall got its name. Tamanend (c. 1625–c. 1701) was the Chief of Chiefs of the Lenni-Lenape nation in the Delaware Valley & he signed the Peace Treaty with William Penn. He became known as Tammany.
E1yBw TIL you have to cook lobsters alive because they are full of toxic bacteria that multiply rapidly after death
jY9Q TIL that the Opium Wars were fought to allow the British to import Opium TO China.