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TIL that anorexia just means loss of appetite. The eating disorder is anorexia nervosa.

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WkyXX TIL that an individual red knot bird, tagged as B-95, has flown the distance to the moon and halfway back over his lifetime.
KoMR TIL there are North Korean labor camps in Siberia, under an agreement between NK and a company run by British businessmen. The camps are tiny ‘home away from home’ villages complete with propaganda.
R7QX6 TIL that it was a common belief amongst anesthesiologists that readheads are harder to sedate. Now there are studies to show that they do indeed often require around 20% more anesthesia to sedate and have a higher tolerance to pain.
wYb6 TIL that M&M stands for Mars and Murrie’s
W776B TIL about Abd al-Rahman. A Umayyad prince who narrowly escaped the killing of his family by the Abassid and wandered across Egypt and North Africa in exile for years before reaching Iberia and starting a kingdom that lasted for three centuries there where Muslim, Jews and Christians lived together.