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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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jGeE TIL In London from 1682 one could buy fire insurance: you attached a metal plate to their building ensuring that if there were a fire their insurance company would fight to extinguish it. If the building wasn’t insured the fire wasn’t put out unless it threatened to spread to an insured building.
7rZEr TIL that Queen Victoria’s journals are only 1/3 complete, as her daughter, Princess Beatrice, heavily censored them when she copied them by hand and burned the originals once the task was done
PY5MO TIL that one of the reasons we like chocolate is because the ratio of sugar and fat is very similar to breast milk
Xv0j TIL a retired Gurkha armed only with his Khukuri singlehandedly fought off 40 bandits, who attacked a train he was travelling on.
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