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TIL Chess grandmasters can lose 10 pounds and burn 6,000 calories just by sitting

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Eg1D0 TIL of the "Boring Billion". From roughly 1.8 billion BC to 0.8 billion BC, relatively nothing happened on earth. There was tectonic stability, a static climate, and hardly any biological evolution. It has been termed "The Dullest Time in Earth's History".
kWp1 TIL The inventor of the Super Soaker water gun was a NASA scientist who helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
AvZn TIL Although Stan Lee gave the Hulk’s alter ego the alliterative name “Bruce Banner”, Lee misremembered it and referred to him as “Bob Banner” in some later stories, an error which readers quickly picked up on. To resolve this discrepancy he decided the official name is “Robert Bruce Banner”.
Y1PA TIL that an escaped crocodile on a plane caused a stampede that caused it to crash, killing 20. The croc survived the crash.
A4kl TIL that Blink 182 released “All the Small Things” because they knew they needed a “really catchy and basic” radio single.