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TIL One cubic inch of muscle weighs slightly more than one cubic inch of fat.

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MWem TIL that during the Great Depression women made clothes out of flour sacks and when manufacturers learned of this they started using patterned fabrics and designed the label to wash out.
QJJAe Assuming you could withstand the heat
9YyRD TIL that in 1956, F-11 Tiger fighter plane shot itself down because the plane was literally going faster than its own gunfire.
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