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TIL The Japanese sports equipment company ASICS is an acronym for “anima sana in corpore sano” Latin for “sound body, sound mind”

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YpYQP TIL oilman Charles Hipp owned a beloved pet lion named Blondie in the 50s. He even tried to register her in a children's fishing tournament one year.
6EJ4m TIL that the "short" in shortcrust pastry refers to how the fats in the dough stop the flour from forming long gluten proteins in any direction; puff pastry has glutens in layers between layers of fat, like lasagne sheets. Overwork it, and glutens are formed in all directions, making it tough!
R7Aa6 TIL about Dr. Robert Liston, the fastest surgeon in the 19th century. Start to finish it took him 2 and a half minutes to amputate a leg. In his most famous mishap he took off an assistant's fingers as he cut through a leg. That surgery is the only known surgery with a 300% mortality rate.
8O7V TIL the great wall of china has caused the populations of plants on each side to diverge genetically.
w4XE TIL An Ebay listing for a sea urchin turned out to be a new species, later given the name Coelopleurus exquisitus