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

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gMmGA TIL of the actions of Bob Hawke and Michel Rocard. Because of them, Antarctica has been protected from all drilling and mining since 1991. This protection banned these practices for fifty years, establishing Antarctica as a "natural reserve, devoted to peace and science."
bOpp TIL Oral Roberts claimed he had a vision of a giant Jesus telling him to build a hospital. When the hospital was losing $10 million/year, Roberts claimed he had another vision from giant Jesus threatened to kill him if he didn’t raise $8 million. The hospital went bankrupt being $25 million in debt.
x60W7 TIL that in 1998, NATO translated Dr. Seuss’ “Sneetches and Other Stories” into Serbo-Croatian and planned to distribute 500,000 copies in Bosnia to teach children about tolerance. The plans were later scaled back because they did not meet NATO standards.
D1L7J TIL that the blanket octopus has the biggest sexual size-dimorphism of any non microscopic organism. Females can be 6 feet long, while males are only 2.4 cms long.
wKyP TIL A North Korean fighter pilot defected with his MiG-15 in 1953 and was rewarded with $100,000 from the United States