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TIL Japan has a lower obesity rate than North Korea

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ADRbn TIL about Grace Hopper (1906-1992). She was rejected by the Navy during WWII due to her age, her weight-to-height ratio and utility as a mathematics professor. Instead she became a programmer of the Harvard Mark I computer, and later popularized the idea of machine-independent programming languages.
oB5oY TIL that the film Mask (1985) is actually based on the true story of Roy Lee "Rocky" Dennis, an American boy who had craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, an extremely rare sclerotic bone disorder occurring in approximately one in every 220 million births, with fewer than 20 recorded cases.
BykK TIL that the USB standard requires the logo to be on the “UP” side, making it much easier to plug in correctly.
xYj5 TIL that whenever you move your eyes quickly from one point to another point, there is a disconnect between your eyes and brain, so your perception of time stretches backwards slightly. This is why, when you first look at a clock, it appears to take longer than a second to move
Wke9d TIL the White House press secretary has more DUI charges than White House press conferences