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TIL: Overworking your muscles can cause severe, even fatal, kidney damage in a condition called Rhabdomyolysis

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5VwXB TIL that Green Bay, Wisconsin’s official seal has the Packers logo
6EoLW TIL Steven Spielberg's father, Arnold Spielberg, traveled to Moscow as part of a delegation of electrical engineers from Phoenix. The trip coincided with an incident that is the subject of Steven Spielberg's 2015 film "Bridge of Spies." He is also still alive today at 103 years old.
xmvg TIL there is a “troll factory” in Russia where people are paid to spread pro-Russian posts in social networks
YpNZv TIL about "sexy primes", sets of prime numbers that vary from each other by 6. The name comes from a pun on the Latin word for six, which was sex. The lowest number set is (5,11), which is also today's date.
rR6nx TIL that in an effort to avoid naming everything after Euler, some mathematical discoveries and theorems are attributed to the first person to have proved them after Euler.