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TIL about WTR (Waist to Thigh Ratio) which accurately predicts Type 2 Diabetes.

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awM7b TIL that the Hays code had a rule only allowing kissing to go on for 3 seconds in movies. Alfred Hitchcock got around this rule for his 1946 film, Notorious, by two actors break off every three seconds. The whole sequence lasts two and a half minutes.
Odmg TIL of a chimp named Nim Chimpsy that used sign language to express that he wanted to smoke marijuana
BrDyx TIL The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is the driest place on earth, with some regions having never recorded any rainfall
wokJ6 TIL that there are official guidelines for muslims to perform their rituals from space since 2007, when the first malaysian astronaut join the space station.
oggr TIL the lead singer of Toto, Joseph Williams, was the writer of the original English lyrics for the song performed by Jabba the Hutt’s palace band in the original 1983 release of “Return of the Jedi,” which was scored and conducted by his father John Williams.