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TIL that underweight models are banned in Israel to fight against anorexia.

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oRgaY TIL while as few as a dozen workers died from accidents during the 1826–1832 construction of Ottawa's Rideau Canal, an estimated 1,000 died due to disease (primarily malaria)
m1jNo TIL of a form of refrigeration that does not need moving parts and cacn run on a cup of kerosene
9Yy5B TIL that tempura, one of Japan's national dishes, was brought over by Portuguese traders in the 16th century.
eLw5 TIL In 2004, the Parisian police in an uncharted area of the Paris Catacombs, found a secret room with a stocked bar and restaurant. They returned to trace the installed power and phone lines to discover they had been cut, with a note left behind reading, “Do not try and find us.”
kON4E TIL Isaac Newton spent 50 years (and wrote 4,500 pages) trying to predict the date for the end of the world using a biblical code. He finally settled on 2060 and this was not known for over 250 years until his papers on the issue were found in a trunk in at the house of the Earl of Portsmouth.