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TIL that actually 26% of lesbians are obese, compared to 17 per cent of straight women.

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1Am8 TIL that the St. Joseph’s student who serves as the school’s Hawk mascot receives a full scholarship as long as he does NOT stop flapping his wings at basketball games. The mascot is estimated to flap his wings 3,500 times during a regulation game.
QN8Da TIL Ringo Starr’s 1973 album “Ringo” is the only time all four Beatles appeared on the same album following their split.
b6l04 TIL One of the first victims of the Nazis was Dora Ritcher, a transwoman who was the first to through male to female gender reassignment surgery
Y7WEB TIL that in 1844, Professor H. Booth claimed “from inhaling the odour of beef the butcher's wife obtains her obesity.” This was part of the 19th-century miasma theory, which linked diseases and weight gain to inhaling “bad air” from rotting matter, influencing public health during cholera outbreaks.
Lkrkd TIL about Mobutu Sese Seko, the military dictator of Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) from 1965 to 1997. Mobutu was supported by the U.S government as an anti-Communist force in Africa, while his regime is regarded as one of the worst in terms of human rights violations