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TIL 82% of black women in the US are overweight with 56.6% being obese

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gMMKA TIL In the films "Rocky," (1976) and "Rocky Balboa,"(2006) Rocky's pet turtles were played by the same two turtles.
7JJr TIL that an arm and a leg are worth $323,099 on average in the USA.
Lkevp TIL Jaws’ production woes added suspense. Unreliable mechanical sharks forced Spielberg to only suggest an unseen shark; actors heightened performances to help; J Williams’ ominous theme induced fear. Spielberg said “Jaws went from Japanese Saturday matinee horror flick to more of a Hitchcock"
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Wk4A4 TIL Archimedes's cattle problem, a 2 millenium-old poem containing an arithmetical problem which involves computing the number of cattle the sun god's herd, was discovered in 1773. It took 107 years for it to be solved. The answer was 7.76x10^206544, more cattle than could fit in the universe.