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TIL that ordering shorts or trousers online is a damn minefield, due to the prevalence of Vanity Sizing (US/UK issue) that labels clothing as being a lot smaller than they actually are. I normally shop where I can try shit on, but most of the shops in the UK are still shut, so forced to go online.

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E1BwV TIL Ada Lovelace is called the world's first computer programmer; She wrote the world’s first machine algorithm for an early computing machine that existed only on paper.
rN4j4 TIL the 2013 El Reno tornado was more than 2.5 miles wide and had multiple vortices in it’s interior moving at speeds of 177 mph across the ground. It is the first known tornado to cause the death of storm chasers, tossing their car 600 feet through the air.
R5ZKl TIL that in July 2018, Russian scientists collected and analysed 300 prehistoric worms from the permafrost and thawed them. 2 of the ancient worms revived and began to move and eat. One is dated at 32,000 years old, the other 41,700 years old.
R78w4 When you look at sporting achievements over the last decades, it seems like humans have gotten faster, better and stronger in nearly every way. Yet as David Epstein points out in this delightfully counter-intuitive talk, we might want to lay off the self-congratulation. Many factors are at play in shattering athletic records, and the development of our natural talents is just one of them.
neZgo TIL that despite what you've seen on TV countless times, you can't revive a flat-lining patient by shocking them. Defibrillation works but reorganizing the heart's electrical activity into a better rhythm, but a flat-lining patient doesn't have any electrical activity to organize.