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TIL obesity was associated with $1,861 excess yearly health costs per person, accounting for $172.74 billion in annual extra costs

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vWOB TIL that this day, in 1935, it became illegal for airplanes to fly over the White House. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s complaint that aircraft disturb his sleep prompts the new law.
GAZN7 TIL: You can be elected to be a UK MP even if you do not hold British citizenship.
M7Ol7 TIL about Pope Joan, a woman who became pope during the Middle ages by disguising herself as a man. The legend was believed to be true until 17th century.
0w1Gj TIL about mind-blindness. Mind-blindness is a concept of a cognitive divergence where an individual is unable to attribute mental states to others.
D1kZe TIL: Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a Japanese military leader who unified Japan and became the de facto leader of Japan, was never granted the title of Shogun because he had no traceable samurai lineage, and his father was an ashigaru – a peasant employed by the samurai as a foot soldier.