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TIL Cold showers are more beneficial than hot showers.

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X0vk8 TIL the reason you can’t go up in the Statue of Liberty’s torch is because of shrapnel from an explosion caused by Germans in 1916 to sabotage munitions for the Allied powers.
QnaM TIL that many golf courses that host professional tournaments, I.E. Augusta National, have an underground vacuum drainage system to remove water from their golf greens.
Brnde TIL about Naomi Ishakawa Foote, who at 14 years old intentionally shot her classmate, Jason Hood, in 1991 after he harassed her. The next year she was interviewed by Oprah.
ljQN TIL there was once a Viking king who ruled as the King of England…for about 5 weeks.
J1PNl TIL Albert Einstein credited the writing of 18th century philosopher David Hume --who argued that universal time independent of an observer’s viewpoint doesn’t exist -- as key to helping him formulate his theory of special relativity.