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TIL nearly 50 percent of Canadian soldiers are overweight, 25 percent of them are being obese, and 6.1 percent of them are morbidly obese

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8ex0L TIL 95 acres worth of corn are needed daily to keep up with production at Jack Daniel’s distillery
ykZw TIL that a U.S. Army Captain’s base pay is $46,026 a year, while a Roman Centurion received 38.58 ounces of gold annually. Using the current market gold price of $1200 an ounce, that comes out to $46,296.
1aA4r TIL that Stephen Colbert's father and two of his brothers were killed in the plane crash that sparked the FAA's Sterile Cockpit regulation back in 1974.
bRe7 TIL Although allied with Japan, Hitler had planned to go in war against the “Yellow People” of Asia in an ultimate showdown (WWIII?) between Nazis and the Japanese Empire to see who would truly dominate the world after an Axis Victory.
eyKL TIL that during prohibition a jury that had heard a bootlegging case was itself put on trial after it drank the evidence. They said they did it to determine whether or not it contained alcohol.