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TIL smokers are at a high risk of having sagging skin after weight loss. The reason being, smoking causes reduced collagen synthesis and damages existing collagen

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9BLB TIL Brainstorming has been shown to produce fewer and lower quality ideas than when people work alone.
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”.
x6EW5 TIL: "Stone gambling" is a thing in China, where you buy uncut jadeite stones from vendors to cut open to see if there is high quality jadeite. It experienced a resurgence recently due to live streaming where streamers record themselves cutting open jadeite they bought reigniting the craze.
K7nB TIL that if you play dead in order to kill or capture an enemy in a war scenario, you are committing a war crime according to the Geneva Convention!
R7RM7 TIL George R.R. Martin proposed Westerosworld as part of a crossover with Westworld. It would be inhabited by sentient robot versions of the Game of Thrones characters.