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TIL the U.S. Army has the most overweight troops out of all the military branches

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1alAV TIL Harry Potter has been translated to Ancient Greek so that students of the dead language would have something fun to decipher.
4ba TIL there is no such thing as canola, and the name canola comes from Canadian Oil Low Acid.
0wV1y TiL Traditional English Breakfast of bacon eggs sausage black pudding baked beans & grilled tomato was available only for royals and the wealthy in the 1300s. In the 1950’s when goods became more available to everyone most people were able to adopt this full breakfast. That’s about 600 years later!
b6eWE TIL that in 2008 a proposed forensic technique suggested analyzing antibodies. It was said to be faster than DNA though wasn’t intended to replace it.
0wJBj TIL In 1989, Russian psychic E. Frenkel was run over by a train while attempting to stop it with his psychic-biological power, after previously ‘successfully’ stopping a car and streetcar.