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TIL: Obesity is associated with job absenteeism and lower productivity at work costing employers $506 per obese employee per year.

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lox9a TIL Comedian Rebel Wilson has a law degree from UNSW and scored in the 99.7 percentile for her university entrance exams. She once considered becoming a mathematician.
kEr7 TIL of the “Well to Hell” hoax, where it was reported than a group of Russian engineers (while drilling into the ground) broke into Hell, and screams of the damned could be heard. The Trinity Broadcasting Network ran with the story and claimed it proved the existence of Hell.
yQ0Na TIL Open-faced sandwiches are inspected by the USDA, while closed-faced sandwiches are inspected by the FDA.
wLoyE TIL of Suryash Dixit, who declared himself ruler of Bir Tawil, an unclaimed territory between Egypt and Sudan.
GYD67 TIL that Bob Barker, former host of The Price is Right, is 1/8 Native American and an official member of the Sioux Tribe