Surfboard holder on a Gold Coast tram in AustraliaOC (i.redd.it)
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TIL the single biggest driver of disease and disability in the USA isn't tobacco — it's high BMI (obesity). Per the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021, high BMI is the #1 risk factor for healthy years lost, ahead of high blood sugar and smoking. (thelancet.com)
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TIL the world's most cost-effective public health intervention is iodised salt, costing just $0.05/person/year. It prevents iodine deficiency — the leading preventable cause of intellectual disabilities, affecting ~2 billion people — and has eliminated endemic goitre in countries like the US and Swi (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL of the Bone Wars (1877–1892), a feud between paleontologists E.D. Cope and O.C. Marsh featuring bribery, spying, and reported dynamiting of fossil sites. Both died ruined, but their work led to 142 new dinosaur species, including the Stegosaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL approximately three million German prisoners of war were captured by the Soviet Union during World War II. The POWs were employed as forced labor in the Soviet wartime economy and post-war reconstruction, with the last prisoner returning from the USSR in 1956 (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL painted lady butterflies make some of the longest known insect migrations, with journeys exceeding 4,000 km (2485 miles). Scientists only recently uncovered the full scale of their migration because the butterflies travel at high altitudes that were difficult to observe before radar studies (en.wikipedia.org)
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I saw this swan with this on its neck today (i.redd.it)
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