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TIL Regal, AMC, Cinemark and Carmike Cinemas are refusing to show the Crouching Tiger Hidden Tiger sequel because its being released on Netflix on day 1

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8aWQL TIL An hour-long hot bath can burn 130 calories — the same amount you would burn by walking for 30 minutes
GOV7 TIL that in WW2 English spies planned to make Hitler less aggressive by feeding him oestrogen, the female sex hormone. It would go unnoticed by his food testers because it was slow and subtle. The English spies were already close enough to Hitler to execute the plan, but it never went through.
oRZV7 TIL that some fish are obligate air breathers. Meaning they need access to air for a breath. Examples of some fish are betas, tarpons, and arapaimas.
gMwKy TIL In 36 BCE, Roman statesman Marcus Varro wrote about germs, describing “minute creatures which cannot be seen by the eyes, which…enter the body through the mouth and nose and there cause serious diseases.” The germ theory of disease would not be accepted widely for another 1,900 years.
loyma TIL That the U.S. does not and has never used the Imperial system. They switched directly from English units to the U.S. Customary System in response to it.