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TIL South Asians are genetically predisposed to higher rates of central body obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease

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PYBaG TIL that Judith Viorst (author of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day) wrote a poem about her parents' deaths when she was seven. Both her parents were still alive at the time, and were not amused.
Z8Woo TIL the Dept. of Education has their own SWAT team. In 2011 they suspected a woman of a white collar crime so they raided her house at dawn. Except it wasn’t her home anymore so they held her ex husband and his 3 children.
gM818 TIL Grover Cleveland was the only US president to serve two non-consecutive terms, but he won the popular vote in all three elections in which he ran.
yVGBJ TIL That the painting "American Gothic" is not a farmer and his wife, but rather a farmer and his daughter.
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