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TIL that overweight and obese people now outnumber starving and malnourished people.

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xa81 TIL Shaolin warrior monk Shi Yan Ming, explaining his eschewing of celibacy, remarked: “I’m too handsome for that.”
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woyJ1 TIL Queensrÿche chose the spelling ryche instead of reich to avoid association with nazism. Ryche is a middle english cognate of the German reich, and it means kingdom, realm, or empire
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