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

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Wkgmo TIL no deaths are necessary for the crime of genocide to have been committed.
9L56 TIL The blue-ringed octopus carries enough venom to kill 26 adult humans within minutes.
0wRKj TIL during WWII Soviet scientists defended the world’s largest seed vault through a 900-day siege. Many of the scientists starved amid the crops and fruit, refusing to jeopardize ‘the future of Russia’ to save themselves.
yKn8 TIL that 19 “states have imposed some kind of fence against community broadband. Arkansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Texas have established a full ban.”
XE0bE TIL Astronauts attach pieces of Velcro into their helmets to scratch their noses during space walks.