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TIL 45% of Americans have at least one Chronic disease

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wLx5P TIL that in this famous photo of a man being executed in the Vietnam War, both the executioner and the executed have the exact same Family name: Nguyễn. The reason for the brutal summary execution was because he had slit the throats of a military leader and his entire family, all also named Nguyễn.
8exv8 TIL Lebanon bars non-citizens from becoming engineers, doctors, or lawyers, among more than 70 other prohibited occupations
j6pQX TIL that in the Middle Ages beetroot was used to treat illnesses related to digestion and the blood. In the mid 17th century wine was often colored with beetroot juice. And in Europe after WW1 food shortages caused many hardships, including mangelwurzel disease, caused by eating only beetroot.
nj6r TIL in 1998, two tanker trains, one of which was transporting fuel oil, collided and derailed in Cameroon. As locals started to scavenge the fuel in an assortment of containers, a smoker among them threw down a lit cigarette. At least 200 people were killed in the resulting flash-fire.
glBW TIL that in Quebec, Canada, KFC is called PFK (‘Poulet Frit Kentucky’ - French for 'Kentucky Fried Chicken’), whereas in France it is still called KFC.