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TIL Slow eaters were 42% less likely to be overweight or obese than fast eaters. Even normal-speed eaters had a 29% lower risk of being overweight

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oRv5W TIL Steve Jobs bought multiple houses across the country to increase his chances of receiving organ donation.
VM0d0 TIL The Russian tried to dig a hole through the Earth's crust in the 1970's. They reached 40,318 feet deep before they stopped. It is still the deepest hole humans have ever dug.
69VKZ TIL that a cross between a zebra and a donkey is known as a zenkey, zonkey, a zebrass, or a zedonk. There are also zorses, zonies and even "Zetlands".
JYMLk TIL nonchalant, disheveled, nonplussed, disconsolate, and nonsensical are examples of unpaired words: words that appear to be formed by a prefix and an existing word, but aren't. Chalant, heveled, plussed, consolate, and sensical are not recognized as English words.
x0Lk TIL British scientists found three previously unknown species of mushrooms in a commercial packet purchased from a small Chinese supermarket in London