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TIL people who are overweight or obese have higher survival and recovery rates for stroke and many other conditions. Known as the Obesity Paradox

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GQn7 TIL The Beach Boys stole the song “Never Learn Not To Love” from Charles Manson. Manson later attempted to murder them, but the police were never called because the Beach Boys were afraid the truth would ruin their image.
DQd0v TIL Dr. Ted Fujita, the inventor of the Tornado Windspeed scale, also studied winds at the sites of Hiroshima and Nagasaki just after their destruction.
o7YL TIL that when a young girl was invited to meet President Coolidge, someone made a bet against her claiming that it was impossible for the president to say more than two words to her. When the girl told the president about the bet, President Coolidge responded, “You lose.”
xVMBB TIL: the world's first HD 6DoF video (VR video where you can walk around like in a game) was sized at 3GB per frame. 10 minutes of video would be 1800GB.
QNZV9 TIL about Marina Abramović, a Serbian performance artist who, in 1974, created an art piece called Rhythm 0. In this piece, she placed 72 objects on a table that ranged from a feather, scissors and a gun with a single bullet. She then allowed the audience to do whatever they wanted for 6 hours.