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TIL: Obesity is strongly correlated with low IQ in children

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xRmB TIL that a Portland dairy was forced to pay staff over $10 million in back pay because of a missing Oxford comma in the state overtime laws.
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Ykyx TIL homosexuality wasn’t explicitly banned in the old testament until re-translations in the 19th and 20th centuries.
vxJD TIL: A human heart of a coke user can keep beating outside your body for 25 minutes
nWal7 TIL The 1741 HMS Wager shipwreck, 6 months suffering on South Chilean Island, 60 crew mutinied leaving Captain Cheap with all the sick men and no chance to survive. The mutineers arrived in London in 1842. Cheap hiked the Andes, nearly starved in jail but arrived in London to see the mutineers hung.