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TIL The Filling of Reese’s Pieces Is Not Peanut Butter

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wL1g7 TIL of the National Weight Control Registry, which tracks 6,000 Americans and has shown that calorie control and regular exercise is key to keeping off the pounds, regardless of how much fat you eat.
GYE7 TIL there are Chinese government records that show that a man by the name of Li Ching-Yuen, lived for 256 years between the years of 1677 and 1933, buried 23 wives, and had 180 living descendants.
AD4j4 TIL there are more skin cancer cases due to indoor tanning than lung cancer cases due to smoking
QNJ7e TIL about Joseph of Cupertino, a Franciscan friar who is honored as a Christian saint. He was prone to miraculous levitation. He was deemed disruptive by his superiors and church authorities, however, and eventually was confined to a small cell, forbidden from joining in any public gatherings.
BWAr TIL that one Swedish family is indirectly controlling one third of the country’s GNP