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TIL Herbert Hoover was so fat that his doctor invented Hooverball, where "On a tennis-like court, two teams of three players throw a 6-pound medicine ball back and forth over an 8-foot net." Hoover lost 21 pounds in his term.

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dDARd TIL there is a genus of plant in the pea family called Clitoria. Its name comes from its flowers, which look like human vulvas. Some species' flowers are edible and commonly used in Southeast and South Asian cuisines and traditional medicine.
1amGP TIL that the bottom of a tectonic plate off Portugal’s coast is peeling off, causing the plates to start grinding beneath each other and creating a subduction zone.
PvlG TIL in 1997, a student won first prize when 43 out of 50 of his classmates (86%) voted to ban the chemical dihydrogen monoxide because it caused “excessive sweating & urination,” among other effects. His project showed misleading terms can lead to false conclusions among the public.
kJx47 TIL that in 1997, two artists held an opinion poll to determine what types of music the public loved or hated the most. They then released a 22-minute song designed to be as hated as possible, featuring bagpipes, opera singing, tubas, Walmart product placement, and a rap about Ludwig Wittgenstein.
69NNJ TIL of the 1975 Yellow Sam betting coup in Ireland, where a horse was trained for an obscure race, was given starting odds of 20-1, the trainer then had a friend block the only phonebox near the racecourse pretending to talk to a dying aunt, so the bookmakers couldn't communicate. He made €1.7(afi)