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TIL Gay men are thinner than the national average while gay women are heavier than the national average.

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e0AyJ TIL In the Liberian General Election (1927), there were 15,000 voters but the winner received 243,000 votes. It made it the Guinness Book of Records as the most fraudulent election reported in history.
nWjgP TIL that DFIA (prev. Munchausen by proxy) is one of the most lethal forms of child abuse, with a 6-10% child mortality rate; 25% of siblings of FDIA child victims were also found to be deceased. The only known treatment is separating child from the abusive caregiver, and caregivers rarely improve.
LyGm TIL: Johnny Knoxville comes from significant inbreeding.
DQ0dp TIL one of the few people actually killed by an Australian Cassowary was an American man who thought it was a good idea to keep one as a pet.
grmvy TIL that a vial of insulin costs around $6 to make yet sells for as much as $275 in the United States.