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TIL that 40% of all Americans and 76% of African Americans are vitamin D deficient

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5XJ9 TIL that most world maps exaggerate the size of Europe and the US. A more accurate map was drawn up in 1972, but is widely unknown of.
pdeA TIL a man wore 70 items of clothing at an airport to avoid a baggage charge
xV7D5 TIL Eugene Merle Shoemaker is the only person with remains placed on a celestial body outside Earth. On July 18, 1997 Shoemaker died in a car crash while on an expedition for crater sites in Australia. On July 31, 1999, some of his ashes were carried to the Moon by the Lunar Prospector space probe.
78dwp TIL that despite eyewitnesses and public outrage, no one was ever charged for the 1946 Moore’s Ford lynching — the case stayed sealed for over 70 years.
1a8nV TIL that Niue is a member of some UN specialised agencies (such as UNESCO, and the WHO), and is invited, alongside the other non-UN member state, the Cook Islands, to attend United Nations conferences open to "all states".