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TIL America is only the 9th fattest country in the world

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nJRP TIL Gandhi was obsessed with poop and enemas. He addressed his live-in maids everyday with the sentence “Have you had a good bowel movement this morning, sisters?”
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xVolw TIL the world's oldest living clam, "Ming the clam", was accidentally killed when scientists tried to figure out how old it was. Upon inspection they found it was 507 years old, 100 years older than previously speculated.
vPRN7 TIL the number of glass-related injuries in the Oklahoma bombing in 1995 led to the review of glass used in buildings 'at risk', and a modern blast-resistant standard can be seen at work in the laminated glass windows shot at by a disgruntled individual in the Canberra Airport, Australia this week.
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