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TIL Japan has a lower obesity rate than North Korea

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7r7GM TIL about Janet Parker, the last person on record to die of smallpox. In 1978, Parker worked above a U.K. research laboratory conducting experiments with the pathogen. Today smallpox is officially held at only two places in the world, the CDC in the U.S. and the Vector Institute in Russia.
e05W5 TIL that 48% of American adults have cardiovascular disease.
Lay9 TIL In 1869, a strange fashion trend was afoot among the hippest London ladies. With the assistance of canes and mismatched shoes or specialty pairs with different heel heights, they affected what was called the Alexandra Limp.
oBakr TIL In 2017, Hai Tao Buddhists who'd bought £5,000 of live Crustacea & released them into the sea for good karma, got fined £15,000 for ‘untold damage’ to the environment by introducing non-native species. In 2012 Hai Tao had released 100kg of cobras in a mountainous area not native to the snakes.
loeXN TIL The most easterly Führer Headquarters was located in Ukraine. Hitler spent 3 months in it in 1942 and issued his fateful Directive 45 trying to reach both Stalingrad and the Caucasus oil fields simultaneously from that place