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TIL a study revealed that eating in smaller plates decreased the amount of food consumed without having an effect on participant’s perceived satisfaction

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Y77Gd TIL Based on the data from modern hunter-gatherer populations, it is estimated that at 15, life expectancy was an additional 39 years (total 54), with a 60% probability of reaching 15
9wR1G TIL in Britain, association football used to be called "soccer" by the upper class, while the working and middle classes preferred the word "football". As the upper class lost influence in British society from the 1960s on, "football" supplanted "soccer" as the most commonly used and accepted word.
0dNDR TIL - Famous WW2 cartoonist, Bill Mauldin, fought against segregation and Jim Crow laws through cartoons after returning home from war.
jNgRQ TIL that a "dead" Egyptian snail was put on display in a British museum. Four years later, the "dead" snail awoke.
4k0Rw TIL Indian wrestler “The Great Gama” would do 5000 squats, 3000 pushups and drink 10 litres of milk every day