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TIL strength training increases bone density in postmenopausal women

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0wvkv TIL How Bono from the band U2 exercised one of his newly given rights after receiving Dublin's Freedom of the City award. One of these ancient privileges was the right to pasture sheep on common ground within city boundaries. To celebrate he took lambs to graze on St Stephen's Green.
19XX TIL Penal colony of Australia had its own penal colony on Tasmania for people who reoffended after being sent there
MekKW TIL Elephants resist cancer because of a gene called P53 that can either order repair of a damaged cell, or order to kill it. Most of the time P53 chooses the latter. The LIF6 gene carries out the orders to eliminate the cancerous cells.
1aPyW TIL that the Apollo 11 landing site was chosen purely for technical and safety reasons, which is why the famous footage takes place on a mostly featureless plain. Later Apollo missions landed in valleys, next to canyons, and at the foot of mountains.
Z8M54 TIL a railroad in Britain with a bad public image hired a 15 year-old to run it's twitter account, with great results.