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TIL An hour-long hot bath can burn 130 calories — the same amount you would burn by walking for 30 minutes

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6E5XW TIL San Francisco’s LBGT culture was rooted in the gold rush, when the city’s population was 95% men. The unbalanced gender ratio made things such as cross-dressing and same-sex dancing commonplace.
9DQ6 TIL the city of New York will pay for a one-way plane ticket for any homeless person if they have a guaranteed place to stay
k5Kd TIL In 17th century Italy conjoined twins were on trial for murder. Authorities arrested Lazarus after he stabbed a man for teasing his parasitic twin brother. Though he was sentenced to death the court let him go, finding that they could not execute him without killing his innocent conjoined twin.
p8LxG TIL that, 49 million years ago, moss rapidly transformed the earth from 'greenhouse earth' to 'icehouse earth' that we live in today - changing c02 from 3,000 ppm to 500 ppm.
88ba TIL the record for the longest recorded sniper kill was set last year at 2.8 Km or 1.8 miles, by an undetermined Australian sniper in the War in Afghanistan.