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TIL The US Chamber of Commerce tracks how lonely American cities are.

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gMKnL TIL that only 7 men have lived to see their millionth hour, though more than 100 women have done so
0dbap TIL when Japanese-American Norm Mineta was interned as a child, US authorities confiscated his baseball bat. Later elected to Congress, someone gifted him a $1500 Hank Aaron bat-- which he had to return, since it violated House rules on gifts. Said Mineta: "The damn government's taken my bat again."
yQ4lX TIL That Sri Lanka only became an island in 1480, when a cyclone destroyed the land bridge connecting it to mainland India.
kOL1B TIL Bodybuilders faint during exercise because they hold their breath while exerting to increase power, but this reduces blood to the heart, aka Valsalva maneuver.
jNoYQ TIL that famous ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev escaped Soviet Russia to freedom only to be diagnosed with AIDS a few years later, he swore to fight the disease defiantly: "AIDS is not going to fuck me, I'm going to fuck AIDS.”