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TIL Obesity in young adult Americans rose from 33% to 41% from 2009 to 2020

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j6xa TIL Turkey has the highest age of consent in Europe at age 18 while Spain has the lowest at 13.
R7RQQ TIL Bulgarians refer to bucket hats as "idiotka", idiot hats
bYbN TIL Edgar Allen Poe wrote a novel in 1838 about a shipwreck where the survivors ate one of their own, Richard Parker. 46 years later, a yacht called the Mignonette sank, leaving 4 survivors. They, too ate one of the survivors, a cabin boy named Richard Parker.
bBVN TIL that beer was invented in Iran 7000 years ago. Today, it’s outlawed there.
DQnbr TIL: Antlers on deer, elk, etc are shed every year and re-grown the following year, and are not a part of their skeleton, unlike how horns are on bovines, sheep, etc.