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TIL Loofahs sponges are dried out fibres from a plant related to a squash

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P1ZnE TIL strength training also involves the nervous system, where your strength is not only determined by how big your muscles are, but by how well the nervous system can recruit muscles, synchronize their firing, and prevent mechanisms designed to prevent your body from tearing itself apart.
1ElV TIL that George Clooney was paid more to make Ocean’s Eleven (20 million) than his character earned from robbing casinos (12.3 million).
4X0Zb TIL that in 1904 an elephant named Alice escaped from Coney Island and was found by startled fishermen near Staten Island, a six-mile swim away
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