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TIL just one serving of processed meat per day increases risk of developing diabetes by 51%

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b6Jg4 TIL NFL running back Christian "The Nigerian Nightmare" Okoye originally found American football "boring" and didn't start playing the sport until he was 23. By age 28, he was the 1989 NFL season leader in rushing yards, and would later be inducted into the Kansas City Chiefs' Hall of Fame
jVoE TIL the feminine companion word to phallic is yonic, meaning imagery evoking or in the shape of the vulva or vagina.
o8kr TIL that engineers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab have developed a next-generation prosthetic: a robotic arm that has 26 joints, can curl up to 45 pounds and is controlled with a person’s mind just like a regular arm.
BPwd TIL that by law, each citizen of Kentucky is required to bathe once each year.
d8DAK TIL, that in Zoroastrianism, the atonement for killing a water-dog (otter) is to kill ten thousand frogs, ten thousand snakes, then thousand tortoises, ten thousand... in it's place.