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TIL While running, breasts don’t just bounce; they do figure-eights.

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xVb8D TIL Approximately 80 percent of current US astronauts wears eye correction (i.e. glasses or contact lenses). As long as the astronauts' vision is correctable to 20/20, they're allowed to fly
ebW4 TIL that in 1567,Hans Steininger, the man said to have the longest beard in the world, died after he tripped over his beard and broke his neck running away from a fire. He usually bundled up his beard in a leather pouch, but that day he hadn’t.
OogV7 TIL In 2002 Steven Bradbury won "The Most Unexpected Gold Medal in History" with Australia's first Winter Olympics gold, when all his opponents crashed at the last corner in 1,000m speed skating.
YjDv TIL that the playtypus has no nipples, and milk simply oozes from their skin.
ODy4 TIL: that the “women make 77c on a man’s dollar” stat is obtained by averaging out a random group of men versus a random group of women. When adjusted for age, same career and same experience, women earn about 95.9-92.2c on a man’s dollar. (pg 29 for statistics)