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TIL that the BMI(body mass index) the most widely used measurement for body weight, is wrong, and even the creator says it cannot be used to measure the fat of an individual.

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GY7MJ TIL sociologist David Dunning once wrote: "If you're incompetent, you can't know you're incompetent... The skills you need to produce a right answer are exactly the skills you need to recognize what a right answer is." He described this phenomenon as the "the anosognosia of everyday life."
VMawp TIL of the Winterberg tunnel; which , during WW1 was sealed shut by French artillery fire trapping the 270 German soldier inside. Over the next six days, as oxygen ran out, they either suffocated or took their own lives. Some asked comrades to kill them. The tunnel has just been discovered.
mxOBv TIL about the Battle of Hayes Pond, an armed confrontation between Lumbee Native Americans and the KKK in which the Lumbee were successful in disrupting the klan rally and ending significant KKK activity in the southern region of North Carolina.
8a91a TIL Queen Victoria wrote an average 2,500 words per day, and her personal journal grew to a total of 122 volumes.
aD1Z TIL when Paris Hilton was hosting SNL, cast members took bets at to whether or not she would ask anyone a personal question. Seth Meyers said yes and won when she asked if Maya Rudolph was Italian. As recounted by Tina Fey, who calls Hilton ‘a piece of shit’.