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TIL Stretching before or after exercise does not reduce muscle soreness

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BrQBW TIL that in 2001 a cat was cleared of the smothering death of a baby. Nicola Payne had found the cat lying on her boy's face when she went into his bedroom. She tried frantically to save him, but he was dead. Pathologists found that sudden infant death syndrome --not the cat, was the cause of death.
eRJ5 TIL Tigresses often donate a portion of their territory to their female offspring so they can breed, hunt and survive more easily. 11:24
XQ86 TIL explorers on Greenland found a P-38 aircraft used during WWII buried under 264 ft of ice. They dug it out and restored it to flying condition.
yQX4M TIL scientists can determine a blue whale's age by counting the layers of it's waxlike earplugs after it passes away.
NwpE TIL that due to changes in local gravity, a pendulum clock accurate at sea level will lose around 16 seconds per day if moved to an altitude of 4000 feet.