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TIL that a lower IQ as a child correlates to higher chances of obesity as an adult

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JWZk TIL middle names became a necessity during the middle ages because there were too many people with the same name and populations had risen exponentially, “The great cities on the planet earth were only a fraction of their size hundreds of years ago.”
kOnV7 TIL on Easter The Little-Known Legend of Jesus in Japan
n88r TIL that polar bears sometimes inter-breed with grizzly bears creating a hybrid bear known as a pizzly bear, a prizzly bear, or a grolar bear
YpwNG TIL about Joe Simpson, who broke his leg descending a mountain and was lowered off the mountain by his climbing partner Simon Yates. He ends up falling off a cliff and into a crevasse after Simon is forced to cut the rope. He survives and crawls 8 miles to safety. Better story in link.
0dJlR TIL Bin Laden wrote his last and final will shortly after 9/11 and in it he urged his children to not join al-Qaeda and to not continue Jihad.