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TIL: Chris Ryan (ex-SAS) walked 300km (190mi) to escape Iraq. During his escape he suffered: radiation poisoning, muscle atrophy and lost 36lb. It’s the longest escape ever made, beating the last record holder (another sas soldier) by 100mi.

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XEwdX TIL of Ernest Vincent Wright, a self published author whose 1939 book "Gadsby," contains 50,000 words, all without using the letter "E."
KYVY4 TIL that NAFLD non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is now called MASLD. Stands for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease. Affects more than 30% of the population globally and rising. Key risk for heart disease. Main cause is insulin resistance. Weight loss of 5-7% can reduce it.
xVQ40 TIL: In the last 100 years, more people have been killed by a dog in each single year than the total killed by sharks for all 100 years combined.
e0rdb TIL In 1958 nuclear weapons were proposed as a tool for petroleum extraction. The plan was to detonate 100 nuclear bombs in the Alberta Oil Sands, thus adding heat and decreasing viscosity, the bitumen could then be easily pumped out. The project was put on hiatus due to risk of Soviet espionage.
GNK5 TIL there’s a plan to transition the US to 100% renewable energy by 2050