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TIL New Zealand will deny people residency visas if they have too high of a BMI and there has been cases of people rejected because of their weight.

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XEOxX TIL of Prisencolinensinainciusol. An Italian song made of nonsense words that's meant to sound like what English sounds like to non-English speakers
jN5ma TIL the first recorded known incident of mooning was in the first century AD. The procurator of the region in which it took place was named Cumanus
ADl87 TIL UPS drivers don't take the shortest routes. UPS has special software which optimises each route by eliminating as many left-hand turns as possible. As result, UPS claims it uses 10m gallons less fuel, emits 20,000 tonnes less carbon dioxide and delivers 350,000 more packages every year.
wMlE TIL that Cheech Marin beat both Anderson Cooper (Yale graduate) and Aisha Tyler (Dartmouth graduate) at Celebrity Jeopardy.
Lk7v9 TIL that former British MP Winston Churchill won a Nobel Price in 1953 - but instead for peace, as he had hoped, he won it for his writing.