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

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Me0na TIL of Cliff Young, a 61-year-old farmer who won a 875-km ultramarathon wearing only farm boots and pants, and broke the previous record by two days.
yVnpJ TIL: Empty Nose Syndrome (ENS). A condition that can occur after nasal surgery when nerves are damaged. This can cause a constant feeling of suffocation, even with normal airflow. People with ENS often suffer from severe anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts, describing it as debilitating
vPE0L TIL, that the concept of a pre-flight checklist was first introduced by management and engineers at the Boeing Company following the 1935 crash of the prototype Boeing B-17 (then known as the Model 299) at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio, killing both pilots.
wonB6 TIL the "Three Lions" on the England football shirt and Royal Banner of England originate in a French royal dynasty, the Plantagenets. Under this dynasty, the Magna Carta was enacted and the Hundred Year's War started, when Richard III declared himself heir to the throne of France.
vP0ZK TIL that Georg Elser tried to stop Hitler five years before Stauffenberg