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TIL Mexico Is the Fattest Country in the World Surpassing United States

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oby7 TIL Men in Black was based on a comic book, and instead of wiping witnesses’ minds, they simply killed them.
BrdbK TIL when Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon, he carried with him a piece from the Wright brothers' first airplane
kOE54 TIL scientists observed the transition of unicellular yeast to multicellularity by repeatedly separating cells by gravity and collecting the cells settled at the bottom of the tubes. The cells eventually formed clusters and subsequent genetic mutations favored the clusters over the individual cells.
9YE07 TIL John Graves (1572) wished burial within 20 feet of his church; his tombstone is now a in parking lot
m1EO TIL there is a neurological condition that gives one “an uncontrollable tendency to pun.”