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TIL When fat people watch videos with fat stigma they are more likely to over-consume calories as a result

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KYO0J TIL when J.R.R. Tolkien and his wife and muse Edith had just met each other they were spending time by throwing sugarlumps into the hats of passers-by from the balcony of a teashop
vPdEB TIL that the Coat of arms of the Netherlands has a motto written in French meaning "I shall maintain"
oRYRY TIL the monkeys at Australia's Melbourne Zoo have been put on a banana-free diet because selective breeding of the fruit has made it too sugary. The issue being that cultivated fruits have been genetically modified to be much higher in sugar content than their natural, ancestral fruits.
ANNo TIL The MPAA would not allow the producers of Meet The Fockers to use the name “Focker” until they could find an actual person with the last name.
dPV9 TIL that during construction of a railway in Uganda, two Tsavo lions halted progression by repeatedly killing workers at night. Deaths were estimated to be 135.