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We’ve been conditioned to think of Covid-19 as a respiratory disease—but it’s not just about the lungs. Evidence is emerging that the coronavirus can cause heart damage in people who’ve had mild symptoms or none at all, especially if those people exercise while they’re infected. If you've just had Covid—even if you didn't have symptoms—you need to be aware of myocarditis. That’s cardiologist-speak for what happens when the muscular walls of the heart become inflamed, weakening the organ and making it more difficult for it to pump blood. It’s not a newly discovered condition, and it turns up pretty rarely, but when it does, it’s most often triggered by an infection. Strenuous activity while the heart is weakened can cause swelling in the legs, dizziness, shortness of breath, and—in serious cases—irregular heartbeat, cardiac arrest, and sudden death.

lNja TIL In 1961, the US Government came up with a plan, coined Operation Plowshare, to use nuclear explosives for “peaceful construction purposes”. One proposal was to widen the Panama Canal by blasting it with those nuclear explosions.
W7Yb8 TIL The mean center of population for the USA has slowly migrated from the eastern coast to present-day Missouri
d8dg7 TIL That Spotify pays the Artist/Label between $0.003 and $0.0084 per stream, with an average payout of $0.004 per stream.
xkao TIL All polar bears alive today can trace their ancestry back to one female brown bear who lived in Ireland
8eyMZ TIL that the number of Chinese restaurants in the United States surpasses that of McDonald's and KFC, totaling approximately 45,000, which underscores the popularity of Chinese cuisine within American culture.