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

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OolEa TIL No authentic writings of Pythagoras have survived. Almost nothing is known for certain about his life. The earliest source describes Pythagoras helping a dog that had been beaten. Pythagoras thought he could recognise his friend's voice in the dog's cries.
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8e1N4 TIL that Hitler had absolutely no reason to declare war on the USA
JYovQ TIL that the name "quark" for subatomic particles was inspired by the book Finnegans Wake. Physicist Murray Gell-Mann coined the term after seeing the following passage in the book: ‘Three quarks for Muster Mark!’.
EmxP TIL there is a conspiracy theory that we are living in a parallel universe due to the spelling of the children’s books The Berenstain Bears