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

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b6J7 TIL that Brian May, guitarist for Queen, has a PhD in Astrophysics. He abandoned his thesis work in 1971 to be a musician and went back and completed the thesis in 2007.
VBE8D TIL That There Were American Combat Fatalities In The Cuban Missile Crises
W7J5X TIL that, twice in the 1990s, crews lived in the Biosphere 2 facility to demonstrate how to live in a closed ecosystem, cultivating their fields and making scientific experimentations
EgEVP TIL Pistol Shrimp is one of the loudest animal on the earth.
oRybY TIL that the eruption of the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai volcano was heard from 6000 miles away. For reference, that is the equivalent of hearing a sound from Moscow while being all the way in San Francisco. Before 2022, this record was held by the eruption of Krakatoa whose range was 3000 miles.