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TIL that chewing gum can raise your metabolism rate up to 20%

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4kEXR TIL The US Chamber of Commerce tracks how lonely American cities are.
MWRB TIL the Dr who popularised the idea of “Alpha” and “Beta” members of wolf packs has spent the rest of his career trying to convince everyone he was wrong.
rWEe TIL the Guillotine was still the official method of execution in France until the death penalty was abolished… in 1981.
VMrdk TIL That while the distress signal “Mayday, Mayday” is for life-threatening situations, it’s twin, “Pan Pan” is reserved for a situation that is serious, but not immediately life-threatening
ZpZpR TIL there is a super massive black hole named TON 618 which is 140 trillion times more luminous and 66 billion times more massive than the Sun. This is more mass than the entire Milky Way galaxy.